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Article: Users' views of looked after children's mental health services.
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- Adoption & Fostering
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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This study by Alison Beck explores the views of young people in the care of Lambeth local authority, and those of their carers, about the young people's mental health and their access to and experience of mental health services. It is associated with a separate study which used a quantitative design to clarify mental health needs in the same population (Beck, forthcoming) and which identified two particularly disadvantaged subgroups: young people living out of the borough and young people who moved their placements frequently. Their views are considered separately, where relevant, in this paper.
The main methodology was a postal questionnaire survey comprising open-ended ...