Predicting Initial Specialist Mental Health Care Use in Adolescence Using Self-, Parent-, and Teacher-Reported Problem Behavior: A Prospective Community-Based Record-Linkage Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Teachers, parents, and adolescents are the driving force behind initial specialist care at consecutive phases in adolescence. Future research should assess whether improving the problem recognition of teachers in secondary education and educating young adults about mental health problems are effective ways of reducing the treatment gap. PMID: 29995355 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research