Treatment enigma for disturbed kids
By Bruce Bower
Two new studies offer conflicting views of the effectiveness of mental-health services for children and teenagers.
In many health-care programs, clinicians who treat children’s emotional and behavioral problems face mounting pressures to specify how much therapy kids really need.
Scant research has tracked youngsters receiving mental-health treatment outside universitybased programs. Two new studies, both published in the February Journal of the American Academy Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry, venture into the real world of child mental-health services.