scholarly journals Mental health services for youths in foster care and disabled youths

2001 ◽  
Vol 91 (7) ◽  
pp. 1094-1099 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services

Connecting Youth in Foster Care with Needed Mental Health Services

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne A. Unrau ◽  
Michelle Conrady-Brown ◽  
Diane Zosky ◽  
Richard M. Grinnell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Youth In Foster Care

Experiences of and Attitudes Toward Mental Health Services Among Older Youths in Foster Care

2006 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany R. Lee ◽  
Michelle R. Munson ◽  
Norma C. Ware ◽  
Marcia T. Ollie ◽  
Lionel D. Scott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services

Mental Health Service Utilization by Children in Foster Care in California

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 1238-1244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal Halfon ◽  
Gale Berkowitz ◽  
Linnea Klee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
Eligible Child ◽  
Age Related

An examination of Medi-Cal-paid claims was undertaken to assess the utilization of mental health services by children in California's foster care system. Using unduplicate counts of service use and diagnoses, it was determined that children in foster care account for 41% of all users of mental health services even though they represent less than 4% of Medi-Cal-eligible children. When partitioned into specific service categories, children in foster care account for 53% of all psychologist visits, 47% of psychiatry visits, 43% of Short Doyle/Medi-Cal inpatient hospitalization in public hospitals, and 27% of inpatient psychiatric hospitals. Expenditure for services paralleled utilization frequency. When compared to the non-foster care Medi-Cal-eligible child population, children in foster care have 10 to 20 times the rate of utilization per eligible child for selected services. For children in foster care, 75% of all diagnoses for billed service were accounted for by four diagnoses: adjustment disorders (28.6%), conduct disorders (20.5%), anxiety disorders (13.8%), and emotional disorders (11.9%), with clear age-related differences in the distribution of diagnoses.

scholarly journals A national study of the impact of outpatient mental health services for children in long-term foster care

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Bellamy ◽  
Geetha Gopalan ◽  
Dorian E. Traube
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internalizing Behavior ◽  
Outpatient Mental Health ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
The Impact

Despite the tremendous mental health need evidenced by children in foster care and high rates of use of mental health services among children in foster care, little is known about the impact of outpatient mental health services on the behavioral health of this population. This study utilizes data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW), the first nationally representative study of child welfare in the United States. A subsample of 439 children who have experienced long-term foster care were included in this study. These data were used to estimate the impact of outpatient mental health services on the externalizing and internalizing behavior problems of children in long-term foster care. A propensity score matching model was employed to produce a robust estimate of the treatment effect. Results indicate that children who have experienced long-term foster care do not benefit from the receipt of outpatient mental health services. Study results are discussed in the context of earlier research on the quality of mental health services for children in foster care.

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