Measuring serious emotional disturbance in children : workshop summary / Krisztina Marton, rapporteur ; Committee on National Statistics and Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marton, Krisztina, rapporteur.

Contributor:

Marton, Krisztina, contributor.

Committee on National Statistics and Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affective disorders in children--Evaluation.

Affective disorders in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 89 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2016.

Summary:

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with the goal of assisting SAMHSA in its responsibilities of expanding the collection of behavioral health data in several areas. The workshop brought together experts in child mental health, psychiatric epidemiology and survey methods to facilitate discussion of the most suitable measures and mechanisms for producing estimates of serious emotional disturbance in children, which are necessary to enable the distribution of block grants that support state-level mental health services for children. The report discusses existing measures and data on mental disorders and functional impairment, challenges associated with collecting these data in large-scale population-based studies, as well as study design and estimation options.

Contents:

Intro

FrontMatter

Acknowledgment of Reviewers

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Existing Measures and Data

3 Measurement Challenges for Population Surveys

4 Design and Estimation Options

5 Key Themes and Possible Next Steps

Appendix A: Workshop Agenda

Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-309-38821-X

0-309-38819-8