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Chapter 2: Mental Health Service Access and Use

The Clock Setting Cure: Why People Improve After Ineffective Treatment
Warren Lambert, Len Bickman

Predicting Service Use From Intake Characteristics
Susan Amero, Anne Johnson, Winston Turner, Cary E. Jenson

Epidemiology of Child Psychopathology and Mental Health Service Use in Rural Maine: Year One Findings
Gwen Zahner, Sarah Teagle, James Harrod, Lisa Burgess, Georgiy Bobashev

Critical Provider Determinants of Youths' Access to Services
Arlene Rubin Stiffman, Catherine Striley, Violet Horvath, Eric Hadley-Ives, Richard Pescarino

What Impedes Youth Mental Health Service Use?
Michael Polgar, Arlene Rubin Stiffman, Violet Horvath, Eric Hadley-Ives, John O'Neal, Richard Pescarino

The Relationship of Expenditures for Behavioral Health Services and Indicators of Child Well Being
Cecelia Kirkman

The Role of Supplier-Induced Demand on Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Services
Cecelia Kirkman

A Community Based Model for Assessing the Supports and Services Needed by WAGES Families to Achieve Independence
Angela Gomez

The Health and Mental Health Needs and Service Utilization of Children of TANF Recipients
Roger A. Boothroyd, Paul G. Stiles, Kristen M. Snyder, Xiang Zong

Exploring the Experiences of Successful Completers of a System of Care for Children And Their Families
Michele H. Gray, Jeffrey A. Anderson, Knute I. Rotto

Premature Termination Among Children Receiving Mental Health Services: A Mixed Methods Analysis
Tom Massey, Mary Ann Kershaw, Shani Hannah, Kim Falk

Help-Seeking and Professional Support Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Adolescents
Diane E. Elze

Restrictiveness of Care and Functional Impairment
William E. Reay, Calvin P. Garbin


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