High-risk substance use and psychosocial functioning in young adult care leavers: Findings from a 10-year follow-up study

Kind, Nina; Seker, Süheyla; d'Huart, Delfine; Bürgin, Dina; Jenkel, Nils; Boonmann, Cyril; Habersaat, Stéphanie; Urben, Sébastien; Fegert, Jörg M.; Clemens, Vera; Bürgin, David; Schmid, Marc

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107290

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“…Future research should aim to study populations with high levels of adversities over time within developmentally informed designs implementing person-oriented modeling approaches. Such research is time and cost consuming, but longitudinal studies following such populations are needed to elucidate risk and protective factors and mechanisms transferring these effects (Kind et al, 2023;Panter-Brick & Leckman, Kind et al, 2013;Schmid, Fegert, Clemens, et al, 2022;. Moreover, future research should incorporate new measures of childhood maltreatment and lifetime stressors (e.g.…”

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“…Learning from Experiences" (German: Jugendhilfeverläufe: Aus Erfahrung lernen [JAEL]) reassessed these individuals between Kind et al, 2023;Schmid, Fegert, Clemens, et al, 2022;Urben et al, 2022).…”

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“…To date, few longitudinal studies have investigated the association of childhood maltreatment with the course of psychopathology among youths in residential care into young adulthood. Studying such an at-risk population longitudinally is inherently challenging and time consuming due to the cumulation of psychosocial burdens (Kind et al, 2023). To our knowledge, no study exists employing longitudinal person-oriented modeling among out-of-home placed individuals across the lifespan.…”

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Childhood maltreatment and mental health problems in a 10-year follow-up study of adolescents in youth residential care: A latent transition analysis

Bürgin,

Witt,

Seker

et al. 2023

Dev Psychopathol

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Childhood maltreatment and mental health problems are common among young people placed out-of-home. However, evidence on the impact of maltreatment on the course of mental health problems in at-risk populations is sparse. The aim of this longitudinal study is twofold: (a) describe the course of mental health problems and the shift in symptom patterns among adolescents in youth residential care into young adulthood and (b) assess how childhood maltreatment is related to the course of mental health problems. One hundred and sixty-six adolescents in Swiss youth residential care were followed up into young adulthood (36.1% women; MAge-Baseline = 16.1 years; MAge-Follow-Up = 26.4 years). Latent transition analysis was employed to analyze transitions of symptom patterns and their association with maltreatment exposure. We found three latent classes of mental health problems: a “multiproblem”-class (51.8% baseline; 33.7% follow-up), a “low symptom”-class (39.2% baseline; 60.2% follow-up), and an “externalizing”-class (9.0% baseline; 6.0% follow-up). Individuals in the “multiproblem”-class were likely to transition towards less-complex symptom patterns. Higher severity of self-reported childhood maltreatment was associated with more complex and persistent mental health problems. Our study underlines the need for collaboration between residential and psychiatric care systems within and after care placements, with a specialized focus on trauma-informed interventions and care.

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