A preliminary evaluation: Demographic and clinical profiles and changes in functioning in children receiving psychosocial rehabilitation

Bonnie L. Davis Kenaley and Nathaniel J. Williams

Children and Youth Services Review, 2011, vol. 33, issue 2, 301-307

Abstract: The present study is the first to examine the demographic and clinical profiles at intake of children, ages 4 to 18Â years, who received Child Psychosocial Rehabilitation (CSPR), a relatively new community-based treatment model for children with emotional disturbance. In addition, the relationship between the relative change in psychosocial, emotional, and behavioral functioning as measured by CAFAS (Hodges, 1989, 1994, 2000) and PECFAS (1994, 2000) scores and the children's age, gender, ethnicity, current living arrangement, internalizing and externalizing behaviors, and severity of impairment at intake were evaluated. Fifty-three children received CPSR for a minimum of six months from a for-profit outpatient child and adolescent mental health clinic located in southwestern Idaho. Significant improvement in the children's overall functioning was found after six months of treatment. Middle or high school age children demonstrated significantly more impairment at intake compared with their younger counterparts. No significant differences in overall functioning were revealed considering the characteristic of gender, living arrangement and clinical profiles at intake.

Keywords: Child; psychosocial; rehabilitation; Emotional; disturbance; Gender; Ethnicity; Age; Functioning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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