Background Mental health problems are common and typically have an early onset.
Effective treatments for mental health problems in childhood and adolescence are available …

OBJECTIVE: To review recent progress in child and adolescent psychiatric epidemiology in
the area of prevalence and burden. METHOD: The literature published in the past decade …

OBJECTIVES: To determine if racial and ethnic subgroups of adolescents are at high risk for
engagement in suicidal behaviors. METHODS: Using the nationally representative school …

OBJECTIVE: Mental health policy for youth has been constrained by a paucity of nationally
representative data concerning patterns and correlates of mental health service utilization 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: This article presents the 12-month prevalence estimates of specific mental
disorders, their social and demographic correlates, and service use patterns in children and …

This article provides a review of the magnitude of mental disorders in children and
adolescents from recent community surveys across the world. Although there is substantial …

OBJECTIVE:: To examine racial differences in the age at which Medicaid-eligible children
first receive an autistic disorder (AD) diagnosis and to examine time in mental health …

This study estimated differences by ethnicity in the diagnoses assigned prior to the
diagnosis of autism. In this sample of 406 Medicaid-eligible children, African-Americans …

Objective: The current paper reviews recent findings regarding how to conceptualize
engagement and factors influencing engagement, treatment attendance rates, and …