There is urgent need for improvement in community-based mental health care for children
and families. Multiple studies have documented serious limitations in the effectiveness of …

Multivariate imputation by chained equations (MICE) has emerged as a principled method of
dealing with missing data. Despite properties that make MICE particularly useful for large …

BackgroundChildren looked after by local authorities are at higher risk of poor psychosocial
outcomes than children living in private households, but nationally representative and …

Symptoms and diagnoses have been the traditional cornerstone of clinical assessments.
Over the past decade, a second concept, impairment, has come to be regarded as important …

Child wellbeing is identified as one of the three primary goals for child welfare outcomes,
thus strong wellbeing assessment tools are crucial to the monitoring of child welfare …

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Researchers have documented mental health disparities uniquely affecting African
Americans and have identified common help-seeking patterns and barriers to effective …

Abstract Child Behavior Checklists were completed in home interviews by parents of 7–16-
year-olds in 1976, 1989, and 1999. Competence scores decreased from 1976 to 1989, but …

OBJECTIVE: This study presents findings from a 1‐year follow‐up to a randomized clinical
trial comparing multisystemic therapy (MST), modified for use with youths presenting …

Objective: The current study examines multiple empirically based perspectives (ie, child,
caregiver, and clinician) of behavior and functioning as they contribute to the clinical and …