TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Measuring behavior change in young children receiving intensive school-based mental health services
JO  - Journal of community psychology
A1  - Hussey, David L.
A1  - Guo, Shenyang
SP  - 629
EP  - 639
VL  - 31
IS  - 6
N2  - 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 Student Ohio Grade K Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Child Behavior Child Mental Health Child Problem Behavior Behavior Intervention Behavior Treatment Behaviorally Disturbed Child Emotionally Disturbed Child Treatment Program Program Effectiveness School Based Student Behavior 05-06<p />
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SN  - 0090-4392
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
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