MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR LATINO CHILDREN

描述（申请人摘要）：拟议项目将提供广泛的 心理健康服务研究培训，重点是提供 为拉丁裔儿童和家庭提供文化上有效的服务。 实质性 文献记录表明，拉丁美洲成年人未充分利用心理健康服务， 尽管对服务的需求与 白种人 然而，我们几乎没有关于是否 为拉丁裔儿童提供心理健康服务与此平行 格局 此外，拉丁美洲人似乎最有可能利用不足， 门诊心理健康服务，而不是其他类型的服务， 例如住院精神健康。 人们对获取的障碍知之甚少 门诊服务以及客户和治疗师因素 门诊病人的治疗出勤率和治疗结果。 拟议 研究有以下目标：目标1：仔细审查障碍， 为有精神健康问题的拉丁裔儿童提供服务。 这 将通过采访一个拉丁美洲家庭的子样本来完成， 具有临床显著心理障碍水平的儿童 以及是否寻求过心理健康服务，以确定 服务利用的障碍。 目标2：鉴于专科门诊 心理健康服务似乎是拉丁美洲人最未充分利用的服务 成年人，将进行一项试点研究，仔细检查变量， 影响寻求专科的儿童的治疗出勤率和结果 门诊心理健康服务。 这将通过以下方式实现： 与儿童精神病门诊合作，一个社区精神病 一个为大量拉丁裔人口服务的健康中心。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): The proposed project will provide broad training in mental health services research, with a focus on delivery of culturally effective services to Latino children and families. Substantial literature documents that Latino adults underutilize mental health services despite a need for services that is as great or greater than that of Caucasians. However, we have little information about whether or not the delivery of mental health services to Latino children parallels this pattern. Further, Latinos appear to be most likely to underutilize outpatient mental health services as opposed to other types of services, such as inpatient mental health. Little is known about barriers to access to outpatient services and the client and therapist factors that contribute to treatment attendance and outcome in an outpatient selling. The proposed research has the following aims: Aim 1: To closely examine barriers to access to services for Latino children with mental health problems. This will be accomplished by interviewing a subsample of Latino families who have children with clinically significant levels of psychological symptomotology and who have or have not sought mental health services, in order to identify barriers to service utilization. Aim 2: Given that specialty outpatient mental health services appear to be the service most underutilized by Latino adults, a pilot study will be conducted to closely examine variables that affect treatment attendance and outcomes for children who seek specialty outpatient mental health services. This will be accomplished through collaboration with Children's Outpatient Psychiatry, a community mental health center that serves a large Latino population.