Open AccessComparing Early-Childhood and School-Aged Systems of Care for Children with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties: Risk, Symptom Presentation, and Outcomes
Author(s) -
Ana Schreier,
Joy S. Kaufman,
Cindy A. Crusto
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of child and family studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.879
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1573-2843
pISSN - 1062-1024
DOI - 10.1007/s10826-019-01447-z
Subject(s) - medicine , clinical psychology , early childhood , descriptive statistics , psychology , developmental psychology , statistics , mathematics
Most large-scale evaluations of systems of care (SOCs) have focused on school-aged populations, with limited research examining early childhood SOCs. As a result, little is known about how risk profiles, symptom presentation, and outcomes may vary between early childhood and school-aged SOC participants. This descriptive study uses data from two SOCs-an early childhood SOC (EC-SOC) and a school-aged SOC (SA-SOC)-to examine the differences across age groups in how children and families present to SOCs and the extent to which risk factors and symptoms change over six months of enrollment.