Adolescent Mental Health

School mental health resources and adolescent mental health service use.

OBJECTIVE Although schools are identified as critical for detecting youth mental disorders, little is known about whether the number of mental health providers and types of resources that they offer influence student mental health service use. Such information could inform the development and allocation of appropriate school-based resources to increase service use. This article examines associa...

IACAPAP Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Section A INTRODUCTION TO CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

www.ssoar.info Parental violence and adolescent mental health

Being the target of parental violent acts decreases child adjustment and increases the likelihood of mental health problems in childhood and adolescence. Our study analyzes how different types of parental violence ranging from verbal threats and swearing to hitting and kicking a child, are associated with child adjustment, indicated by SDQ total problem score, internalizing and externalizing pr...

Adolescent mental health: Challenges with maternal noncompliance

The leading cause of suicide ideation, attempts, and completion in adolescents is persistent and unresolved parental conflict. National statistics show extremely high rates of childhood neglect and abuse are perpetrated most often by single mothers. Psychiatric disorders arising from maternal-child dysfunction are well-documented. However, resources to prevent offspring victimization are lackin...

Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health

We investigate the effects of a positive income shock on mental health among adolescent girls using evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Malawi. Offers of cash transfers strongly reduced psychological distress among baseline schoolgirls. However, these large beneficial effects declined with increases in the transfer amount offered to the parents conditional on regular school attendance b...