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.