Mental disorders and disabilities among low-income children / Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders ; Thomas F. Boat and Joel T. Wu, editors ; Board on the Health of Select Populations, Board on Children, Youth, and Families.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders, author.

Contributor:

Boat, Thomas F., editor.

Wu, Joel T., editor.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on the Health of Select Populations.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Children, Youth, and Families.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children with mental disabilities--United States.

Children with mental disabilities.

Poor children--Mental health--United States.

Poor children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2013, about 50% were disabled primarily due to a mental disorder. An increase in the number of children who are recipients of SSI benefits due to mental disorders has been observed through several decades of the program beginning in 1985 and continuing through 2010. Nevertheless, less than 1% of children in the United States are recipients of SSI disability benefits for a mental disorder. At the request of the Social Security Administration, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children compares national trends in the number of children with mental disorders with the trends in the number of children receiving benefits from the SSI program, and describes the possible factors that may contribute to any differences between the two groups. This report provides an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and the levels of impairment in the U.S. population under age 18. The report focuses on 6 mental disorders, chosen due to their prevalence and the severity of disability attributed to those disorders within the SSI disability program: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. While this report is not a comprehensive discussion of these disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children provides the best currently available information regarding demographics, diagnosis, treatment, and expectations for the disorder time course - both the natural course and under treatment.

Contents:

Part I: Background and context of the Supplemental Security Income disability benefit program for children. Introduction

The SSI program for children

National-level trends in the SSI program for children with mental disorders, 2004-2013

State variation in the SSI program for children

Poverty and childhood disability

Part II: Clinical characteristics of selected mental disorders. Clinical characteristics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Clinical characteristics of oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder

Clinical characteristics of autism spectrum disorder

Clinical characteristics of intellectual disabilities

Clinical characteristics of learning disabilities

Clinical characteristics of mood disorders

Part III: Prevalence of selected mental disorders. Prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Prevalence of oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder

Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder

Prevalence of intellectual disabilities

Prevalence of learning disabilities

Prevalence of mood disorders

Part IV: Medicaid Analytic eXtract study

Medicaid Analytic eXtract study

Appendix A: Deeming eligibility chart for children

Appendix B: SSA childhood mental disorders listing of impairments

Appendix C: The listing of impairments : overview

Appendix D: Surveys and surveillance systems that collect data on mental disorders among children

Appendix E: Initial allowance, initial determination, allowance rate, and recipient data for major mental disorders

Appendix F: Medicaid Analytic eXtract methods

Appendix G: Medicaid Analytic eXtract results.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 17, 2016).

ISBN:

9780309376884

0309376882

9780309376860

0309376866

OCLC:

928462991