Ethnic differences in children's entry into public mental health care via emergency mental health services

Journal of Child and Family Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 512-519

  Snowden, Lonnie R ^a   Masland, Mary C ^b   Fawley, Kya ^a   Wallace, Neal ^c  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Crisis; Emergency; Mental health; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349513807     PISSN: 10621024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10826-008-9253-7     Document Type: Article

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