Characteristics of Children Admitted to Inpatient Community Mental Health Center

Adolescent psychiatric patients and their parents: Comparison with a non-clinical cohort

“…Despite efforts to treat children and adolescents in less restrictive and less costly settings (22), a substantial number of children and adolescents receive inpatient psychiatric hospitalization (18,22,24). The risk is slightly higher for children with externalizing problems (25,26). The risk is slightly higher for children with externalizing problems (25,26).…”

Methodological issues in childhood depression: A review of the literature.

“…Investigators most often chose the Bellevue Index of Depression 13, 21–23, 32, 33, 41 or the Kiddie-SADS 1, 24, 34, 40 . In a number of studies, the interviews were described only as to the level of structure they possessed ( i.e ., unstructured, semistructured), 3–6, 13–15, 18, 27, 36, 37, 42 without further reference to their contents, origins, or underlying diagnostic schemae. Thus, even in a well-developed category of assessment approaches such as interviews, we find divergent instrument selection and inattention to the psychometric characteristics of the unstructured interview formats.…”

“…Our review of the literature indicates that most direct observation data are obtained during interviews, 9, 13 and involve behavior ratings rather than time sampling procedures to obtain information about the frequency, intensity, and other features of different categories of behavior. Other studies have observed subjects in classrooms 20, 32 or in the halls on psychiatric units, 14, 32 though such data are infrequently reported. Virtually no study reported data collected in natural settings such as the regular classrooms of subjects or in their homes.…”

Characteristics of Adolescents with School Refusal

“…'school phobia' and 'separation anxiety' have persisted as a way of characterizing young people with school attendance difficulties. Recent studies, however, have noted a high prevalence of mood disorders in adolescents with school refusal [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Today, school refusal is viewed as a symptom associated mainly with anxiety disorders in children and with anxiety and depressive disorders in adolescents [2].…”

“…Studies on school refusal have often been limited by small sample, an emphasis on outpatient groups, lack of comprehensive diagnostic information, and negligible data about precipitants [9,10,[14][15][16][17][18][19]. These data are crucial to a better appreciation of some of the factors associated with the problem and in planning effective management.…”