@article{ref1,
title="Measuring behavior change in young children receiving intensive school-based mental health services",
journal="Journal of community psychology",
year="2003",
author="Hussey, David L. and Guo, Shenyang",
volume="31",
number="6",
pages="629-639",
abstract="An innovative urban school-based mental health program was developed to treat the subset of elementary school-referred children who are experiencing severe emotional and behavioral difficulties. The program served a group of 201 students and their families, referred from 15 elementary schools through a large urban school district in Ohio (K through fifth grade). The children in the sample are predominantly African-American (N = 157, 78.1%), and male (N = 154, 76.6%), with an average age at admission of 9.23 years (SD = 1.75). Parents and teachers provided behavioral rating data using a standardized psychiatric assessment instrument (i.e., the Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders - DSMD). Results showed that at intake 68.7% of children scored above the clinical cutoff score of 60 on the conduct disorder subscale of the DSMD, with more than 40.8% of youth scoring 70 or higher. On the depression subscale 55.7% scored above the cutoff score, with slightly less than a third (30.8%) scoring 70 or higher. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to measure longitudinal behavior change. Children evidenced statistically significant reductions in conduct disordered behavior ( p < .01), attention deficit/hyperactivity ( p < .05), and depressive symptomatology ( p < .01) over the course of approximately 1 year. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Community Psychology, 2003. Copyright © 2003 by John Wiley and Sons)Elementary School StudentOhioGrade KGrade 1Grade 2Grade 3Grade 4Grade 5Child BehaviorChild Mental HealthChild Problem BehaviorBehavior InterventionBehavior TreatmentBehaviorally Disturbed ChildEmotionally Disturbed ChildTreatment ProgramProgram EffectivenessSchool BasedStudent Behavior05-06<p />",
language="",
issn="0090-4392",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}