The mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents in home‐based foster care
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The mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents in home-based foster care.
OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalence of mental health problems, rates of suicidal ideation and behaviour, and use of professional mental health services among children and adolescents residing in home-based foster care, and to compare these rates with those reported for children and adolescents in the general Australian community. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING 326 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00857.x