Mental Health Systems and Juvenile Justice Outcomes

心理健康系统和青少年司法成果

• 批准号: 6560101
• 负责人: ALISON Evans Cuellar
• 金额: $ 13.53万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6560101
• 关键词: Medicare /Medicaid; behavioral /social science research tag; child behavior disorders; clinical research; criminology; health care policy; human data; juvenile delinquency; legal /correctional; managed care; mental health; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The program of training and research proposed in this Mentored Research Scientist Development Award application is designed to further both the applicant's near-term and long-term career goals. In this near term it will allow her to develop skills in conducting longitudinal studies dealing with the relationship between mental health and juvenile justice systems using large, secondary datasets. In the long-term it will help her develop theoretical models and empirical tests about the behavior of mental health care and juvenile justice systems, the dynamics of their relationship, and their responses to policy change. The proposed training and research program is designed to address three career development needs: 1) develop a knowledge base of the juvenile justice system as it relates to youth with emotional disorders; 2) develop statistical skills in longitudinal data analysis; and 3) train in the responsible conduct of research and scientific communication. This training will facilitate the applicant's pursuit of innovative, comprehensive, and technologically efficient approaches in research on mental health and juvenile justice systems. The research plan is divided into three separate studies which will complement the proposed sequence of training activities and provide the applicant research experience with dynamic modeling using a variety of datasets. The specific aims of the proposed studies are 1) to estimate the impact of major health policy changes, including Medicaid eligibility and mental health managed care, on juvenile crime outcomes, using two separate approaches; 2) to estimate the effects of major policy changes and key organizational structures on the continuity of mental health service delivery for youth exiting the juvenile justice system; and 3) to estimate the effects of a mental health diversion program for youth in the juvenile justice system on criminal outcomes.

描述（由申请人提供）：本指导研究科学家发展奖申请中提出的培训和研究计划旨在促进申请人的近期和长期职业目标。在这一短期内，它将使她能够发展技能，进行纵向研究，处理心理健康和少年司法系统之间的关系，使用大型，二级数据集。从长远来看，这将有助于她开发有关精神卫生保健和少年司法系统的行为，他们的关系的动态，以及他们对政策变化的反应的理论模型和实证检验。拟议的培训和研究方案旨在解决三个职业发展需要：1）发展青少年司法系统的知识库，因为它与患有情绪障碍的青年有关; 2）发展纵向数据分析的统计技能; 3）培训负责任的研究和科学交流行为。这项培训将促进申请人在精神健康和少年司法系统研究中追求创新，全面和技术上有效的方法。研究计划分为三个独立的研究，这将补充拟议的培训活动序列，并提供申请人的研究经验，使用各种数据集的动态建模。拟议研究的具体目标是：1）使用两种不同的方法，估计重大卫生政策变化（包括医疗补助资格和精神健康管理护理）对青少年犯罪结果的影响; 2）估计重大政策变化和关键组织结构对青少年退出青少年司法系统的精神健康服务连续性的影响;以及3）评估青少年司法系统中青少年心理健康转移计划对犯罪结果的影响。