Detection of mental health problems in an especially vulnerable group: children and young people in residential child care.

作者：Sainero Ana; del Valle Jorge F^*; Bravo Amaia

来源：Anales de Psicologia, 2015, 31(2): 472-480.

DOI：10.6018/analesps.31.2.182051

• mental health
• residential child care
• CBCL
• YSR

Research on mental health problems of children and young people in residential child care shows a high incidence. One of the strategies to improve the interventions is the use of tools of detection, so that biases in the referral to treatment could be avoided.
The objective of this study was to analyze the level of concordance between the information given by the young people and their social educators, using the CBCL (in case of educators) and YSR (for adolescents) in a sample of 138 young people aged from 11 to 18 who were in residential care. Also differences between the group of young people referred to mental health treatment and those without it were analyzed.
Results show low and moderate levels of concordance between the information given by the young people and their educators, with higher levels of agreement in externalized problems, in a similar way as the results found in research with samples of parents and children. Score differences are discussed according to the literature review, concluding that adults distinguish the clinical and non-clinical group clearly, but young people do not display significant differences. These findings indicate the need for giving more relevance to self-reports, to the adolescent own perspective.

• 出版日期2015-5