School Mental Health Project

Article of the Month

June 2004

 


Child Mental Health Research

 


For your “light” summer reading, June’s Article of the Month links you to Data Trends: Summaries of Current Research Findings in Children’s Mental Health Field. This PDF file has summaries of child mental health research articles published by the Research and Training Center for Children’s Mental Health at the University of South Florida, Tampa in 2003. Some of the research summaries that are more closely connected to school mental health are:

 

Olfson, M., Marcus, S. C., Weissman, M. M., & Jensen, P. S. (2002). National trends in the use of psychotropic medications by children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41(5), 514-521.

 

Vander Stoep, A., Weiss, N. S., McKnight, B., Beresford, S. A. A., & Cohen, P. (2002). Which measure of adolescent psychiatric disorder—diagnosis, number of symptoms, or adaptive functioning—best predicts adverse young adult outcomes? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 56: 56-65.

 

Achenbach, T. M., Dumenci, L., & Rescorla, L. A. (2002). Ten-year comparisons of problems and competencies for national samples of youth: Self, parent, and teacher reports. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 10(4), 194-203.

 

Achenbach, T. M., Dumenci, L., & Rescorla, L. A. (2003). Are American children’s problems still getting worse? A 23-year comparison. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 31(1), 1-11.

 

Teagle, S. (2002). Parental problem recognition and child mental health service use. Mental Health Services Research, 4(4), 257-266.

 

Farmer, E. M. Z., Burns, B. J., Phillips, S. W., Angold, A., & Costello, E. J. (2003). Pathways into and through mental health services for children and adolescents. Psychiatric Services, 54(1), 60-67.

 

Sturm, R., Ringel, J. S., & Andreyeva, T. (2003). Geographic disparities in children’s mental health care. Pediatrics, 112(4), 308-315.