This study examines the service use history of youths referred to one private, nonprofit
mental health agency over a 12-month period. One hundred eleven youths were study …

Rural children and adolescents have rates of mental disorders comparable to metropolitan
youth, but face additional barriers to effective delivery of mental health care that are unique …

This paper describes the mental health services provided at a high school based health
center that integrates mental health and medical services. Five years after the inception of …

Despite concern about access to mental health (MH) services for youth, little is known about
the specialty treatment infrastructure serving this population. We used national data to …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand upon policy implications of a recent study
assessing adolescent mental health service contact and subsequent depression …

The benefits of school-based mental health services have been supported in prior research
and literature. Studies have shown that approximately one in five youths in schools today …

In an effort to bridge the gap between service need and service utilization, an urban based,
university affiliated children's psychiatric outpatient clinic has implemented a program which …

Background: Substance use and mental health issues (ie, behavioral health issues) affect
millions of adolescents in the United States; however, estimates show that only half of those …

OBJECTIVE: To analyze a comprehensive multivariate model of the use of mental health-
related ambulatory care services by children ages 6-17. STUDY SETTING: The 1987 …

Most schools offer some type of school-based mental health service to students, and there is
a growing body of empirically rigorous studies examining the effects on academic and …