Within-state availability of transition-to-adulthood services for youths with serious mental health conditions
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of PsychiatryDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2006-11-07Keywords
AdolescentAdolescent Health Services
distribution
Adult
Child
Child Health Services
Community Mental Health Services
distribution
*Continuity of Patient Care
Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry)
Humans
Mental Disorders
Questionnaires
Severity of Illness Index
*Social Support
Substance-Related Disorders
United States
Vocational Guidance
Life Sciences
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychiatry
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OBJECTIVE: This study describes the existence and nature of services within state child and adult mental health systems that support the transition from adolescence to adulthood. METHODS: State child and adult mental health administrators from all but one state were interviewed by telephone with a semistructured questionnaire regarding transition services in their state mental health system, such as supported housing, vocational support, preparation for independent living, and dual diagnosis treatment. Eight states were deemed sufficiently decentralized to render state-level administrator reports invalid. Specific service data from the remaining 41 states and the District of Columbia were analyzed with descriptive statistics. RESULTS: One-quarter of child state mental health systems and one-half of adult state mental health systems offered no transition services, and few provided any kind of transition service at more than one site. Most types of transition services were available at all in less than 20 percent of the states. CONCLUSIONS: Across the United States transition support services are lacking. The adult system in particular will require major transformation to provide the service capacity that is needed to meet the current standards of transition service accessibility for young Americans with serious mental health conditions.Source
Psychiatr Serv. 2006 Nov;57(11):1594-9. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1176/appi.ps.57.11.1594Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/39025PubMed ID
17085607Related Resources
Link to Article in PubMedae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1176/appi.ps.57.11.1594
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