A national study of the impact of outpatient mental health services for children in long-term foster care
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Despite the tremendous mental health need evidenced by children in foster care and high rates of use of mental health services among children in foster care, little is known about the impact of outpatient mental health services on the behavioral health of this population. This study utilizes data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW), the first nationally representative study of child welfare in the United States. A subsample of 439 children who have experienced long-term foster care were included in this study. These data were used to estimate the impact of outpatient mental health services on the externalizing and internalizing behavior problems of children in long-term foster care. A propensity score matching model was employed to produce a robust estimate of the treatment effect. Results indicate that children who have experienced long-term foster care do not benefit from the receipt of outpatient mental health services. Study results are discussed in the context of earlier research on the quality of mental health services for children in foster care.
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- Authors
- Bellamy, J. L., Gopalan, G., & Traube, D. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bellamy, Jennifer L.
- Venue
- Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-10
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 467-479
- ISSN
- 1359-1045 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7021
- PMC
- PMC3049724
- OpenAlex
- W2114010279
- Cited by
- 92
- References
- 53
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- FWCI
- 15.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (F32MH090614, T32MH019960)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Keywords
- outpatient mental health services, long-term foster care, foster children, externalizing problems, internalizing problems, child welfare, mental health care quality, treatment effects, National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Ambulatory Care, Child, Child Abuse, Child Behavior Disorders, Child, Preschool, Female, Foster Home Care, Humans, Long-Term Care, Male, Mental Health Services, United States, Multivariate Analysis, Case-Control Studies, Matched-Pair Analysis, Caregivers, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Propensity Score
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