There is a growing appetite for mental health and wellbeing outcome measures that can inform clinical practice at individual and service levels, including use for local and national benchmarking. Despite a varied literature on child mental health and wellbeing outcome measures that focus on psychometric properties alone, no reviews exist that appraise the availability of psychometric evidence a...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the evidence on the transition process from child to adult services for young people with palliative care needs. DESIGN Systematic review. SETTING Child and adult services and interface between healthcare providers. PATIENTS Young people aged 13-24 years with palliative care conditions in the process of transition. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Young people and their famil...

OBJECTIVE Evidence is steadily accumulating that a preventable environmental hazard, child maltreatment, exerts causal influences on the development of long-standing patterns of antisocial behavior in humans. The relationship between child maltreatment and antisocial outcome, however, has never previously been tested in a large-scale study in which official reports (rather than family member re...

OBJECTIVES This article examines the effects of birth outcome and selected social environmental factors on the health of young children. DATA SOURCE The data are from the 1994/95 National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. Information provided by the biological mothers of 5,888 children younger than age 3 is analyzed. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES The analysis focuses on two measures of chi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the contributions of injury severity, physical and cognitive disability, child and family function to outcome 30 months after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children. DESIGN A prospective, longitudinal, between group design, comparing function before and after injury across three levels of injury severity. SUBJECTS One hundred and fifty children, 3.0-12.11 years old, a...

BACKGROUND Many women of reproductive age are employed in industries involving exposure to organic solvents. Animal toxicological studies and human case reports demonstrate that high exposure to solvents causes neurodevelopmental toxicity in exposed offspring. Data from occupationally exposed women and their children are few. OBJECTIVE To compare the cognitive, language, and motor performance...

The introduction and widespread application of assisted reproduction techniques have raised major concern about the outcome of resulting pregnancies, as well as about the offspring's health. It seems that pregnancies achieved after standard in-vitro fertilization (IVF) bear an increased risk for prematurity and low birth weight. On the other hand, pregnancy outcome of singletons achieved after ...

In response to the continuing need for competent child welfare professionals, a largemid-western university’s College of SocialWork collaborated with a public childwelfare agency to design and implement a one year,Title IV-E-funded training opportunity for second-yearMSWstudents. Student outcomes, including knowledge acquisition, attitudes about child welfare, and field of post-graduation emplo...

Child custody evaluations need to be studied systemically as a human service system. There is little research on the history, caseload dynamics, economics, delivery systems, or impact of custody evaluations. This article identifies five systems-level questions about custody evaluations and examines one, outcomes assessment, in detail by developing seven outcome hypotheses. The article concludes...