 When youth know about their mental disorder before caregivers do: Youth-identified duration of untreated mental disorder (YIDUMD)JoAnn Leavey Psychosis, 2011, vol. 3, issue 1, 86-89 Abstract: Purpose: To report on young people's accounts of retrospective subjective knowledge of early distress. Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 49 youth, 22 female and 27 male, aged 16–26 living with mental health problems in Canada, USA, and Australia. Results: Some youth self-reported being "aware" of mental problems as early as 4 and 5 years of age; however, as a group, youth were not officially diagnosed until between 11 and 24 years of age. Overall, the average youth-identified duration of untreated mental disorder (YIDUMD) was 4.73 years, with 5 youth being diagnosed and treated at less than one year from self-identified onset. Conclusion: The complexities of childhood make the accuracy of diagnosing mental disorders at early ages difficult. This research suggests that some youth may have the ability to self-identify mental disturbances at very early ages. Therefore, further research is needed to explore developing screening and assessment tools facilitating the systematic inclusion of child self-report information in clinical interviews. Date: 2011 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rpsyxx:v:3:y:2011:i:1:p:86-89 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2010.488296 Access Statistics for this article Psychosis is currently edited by Dr John Read More articles in Psychosis from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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