APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Do High-Risk Adolescents Receive Mental Health Services in the Community That Are Appropriately Targeted to Their Diagnoses?

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Clinical Science

  • Emma Whitmyre
    George Mason University
  • Leah Adams
    George Mason University
  • Annamarie Defayette
    George Mason University
  • Caitlin Williams
    George Mason University
  • Christianne Esposito-Smythers
    George Mason University

Abstract

This study examined parent-adolescent agreement on adolescent mental health (MH) diagnoses and whether MH treatment received in the community corresponded with MH diagnoses in a treatment seeking sample of adolescents. Of the five MH diagnoses examined, agreement was only significant for mood and disruptive behavior disorders across both areas.

Adolescent

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