Measuring Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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The overall effort is being overseen by the Standing Committee on Integrating New Behavioral Health Measures into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Data Collection Programs.1 In addition to new measures of serious emotional disturbance in children, SAMHSA and ASPE are interested in expanding data collection on specific mental illness diagnoses with functional impairment, on trauma, and For a description of the overall study, see http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/ 1 CNSTAT/Behavioral_Health_Measures_Committee/index.htm [October 2015]
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The primary motivation for collecting the data is the block grant for community mental health services, which was established by the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act of 1992. The block grant is administered by SAMHSA and provides funds to support state-level services for children with serious emotional disturbance and for adults with serious mental illness.
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. Rockville, MD: Author; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality.
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The main goals of the workshop were to discuss options for collecting data and producing estimates on serious emotional disturbance in children, including consideration of the available measures and possible data collection mechanisms. ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT This summary describes the workshop presentations and the discussions that followed each topic: see the workshop agenda in Appendix A
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It covers the design of the National Survey of Children's Health and lessons learned from that survey; design and estimation considerations in multiphase studies; pilot studies conducted on behalf of SAMHSA to produce prevalence rates of child serious emotional disturbance and of adult serious mental illness, using model-based estimation; and a project that used small-area estimation to produce prevalence rates of serious emotional disturbance in children from school-based samples. Chapter 5 summarizes the discussions throughout the day, which occurred primarily during two formal discussion sessions, one after the morning presentations and the other one after the afternoon presentations.
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