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Article: Abused, neglected youth do not receive needed mental health services.
- Article from:
- Mental Health Weekly Digest
- Article date:
- August 9, 2004
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2004 AUG 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Each year, more than 600,000 children seen in the U.S. child welfare system for alleged maltreatment do not receive mental health care for significant emotional and behavioral problems, reports a new study.
"Routine screening for mental health needs and increasing access to mental health professionals for further evaluation and treatment should be a priority for children early in their contact with the child welfare system," concluded a research team led by Barbara J. Burns, PhD, of Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
Burns and colleagues writing in the August 2004 Journal of the American ...