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- Title
Measuring behavior change in young children receiving intensive school-based mental health services.
- Authors
Hussey, David L.; Guo, Shenyong
- Abstract
An innovative urban school-based mental health program was developed to treat the subset of elementary school-referred children who are experiencing severe emotional and behavioral difficulties. The program served a group of 201 students and their families, referred from 15 elementary schools through a large urban school district in Ohio (K through fifth grade). The children in the sample are predominantly African-American (N = 157, 78.1%), and male (N = 154, 76.6%), with an average age at admission of 9.23 years (SD = 1.75). Parents and teachers provided behavioral rating data using a standardized psychiatric assessment instrument (i.e., the Devereux Scales of Mental DisordersDSMD). Results showed that at intake 68.7% of children scored above the clinical cutoff score of 60 on the conduct disorder subscale of the DSMD, with more than 40.8% of youth scoring 70 or higher. On the depression subscale 55.7% scored above the cutoff score, with slightly less than a third (30.8%) scoring 70 or higher. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to measure longitudinal behavior change. Children evidenced statistically significant reductions in conduct disordered behavior ( p < .01), attention deficit/hyperactivity ( p < .05), and depressive symptomatology ( p < .01) over the course of approximately 1 year. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comm Psychol 31: 629639, 2003.
- Subjects
OHIO; UNITED States; MENTAL health services; URBAN schools; ADJUSTMENT disorders in children; CONDUCT disorders in children; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Journal of Community Psychology, 2003, Vol 31, Issue 6, p629
- ISSN
0090-4392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jcop.10074