Residential treatment centers and other organized mental health care for children and youth: United States, 1988.

Young clients' exposure to community violence: How much do their therapists know?

“…Of the therapists employed across the three study sites, 67% were white, 29% African American/Caribbean black, and 4% Asian/Pacific Islanders; overall, 88% were female and 12% male. These characteristics appear representative of clinical staffs in both residential and child welfare settings as reported in earlier national studies (Gibelman & Schervish, 1997; Guterman & Jayaratne, 1994; Sunshine, Witkin, Atay, & Manderscheid, 1991). At the outset of the study, therapists’ mean time since first having met their young client face-to-face was 4.6 months ( SD =4.17), and their mean time since first receiving referral information about their young client was 4.7 months ( SD =4.19).…”

Outcomes of children with emotional disturbance in residential treatment for educational purposes

“…Burns (1989) estimates that 70% of funding for children's mental health services nationwide is spent on inpatient and residential treatment care. Despite valiant efforts of many states to encourage alternatives to residential care, the number of residential treatment centers has continued to increase, and the annual expenditure is $1.3 billion per year, with 33% of the funds coming from local governments (Sunshine, Witkin, Atay, & Manderscheid, 1991). Despite the fact that residential treatment centers focus their care upon children and youth, evidence supporting their efficacy with children is singularly lacking (Knitzer, Steinberg, & Fleisch, 1990;Whittaker, Kinney, Tracy, & Booth, 1988).…”

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Abused and Neglected Children an Inpatient Center Model

“…The US states with the highest number of centers are Minnesota and Colorado, which have approximately one center per 100,000 inhabitants. Nearly 94% of the patients at these centers are under the age of 18, and previous studies of patients at these centers have reported that 70% of them are male, while 30% are female, 28% are Black and 10% are Hispanic (8).…”