Objective: Adolescents with behavioral health disorders (ie, mental health disorders and
substance use) often experience frequent recurrence of symptoms, suggesting a need for an …

Background Despite the growing involvement of nurse practitioners in mental health
services for children and adolescents, little is known about the patterns of mental health …

Although it is known some youth access mental health services more readily than others,
most service use studies used variable-centric approaches that produced heterogeneous …

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 examine rates and predictors of receiving a psychosocial service before
initiating antipsychotic treatment among young people in the Medicaid program. Method A …

Objective: Children and adolescents with diagnosed mental disorders may require
developmentally tailored interventions. However, little is known about the difference in …

Objective This study examined 12-month rates of service use for mental, emotional, and
behavioral disorders among adolescents. Methods Data were from the National Comorbidity …

Objective: Care management entity models have a positive impact on functioning and
symptom control among youths with serious emotional and behavioral disorders. However …

Objective To examine trends in the use of antipsychotic medication in Medicaid-eligible
youth from 2008 to 2013 and the factors associated with this use. Method Youth aged 0 to 17 …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the association of parent, family, and adolescent variables with
adolescent mental health service need and utilization. METHOD: Correlates of adolescent …