Assessing the mental health needs of young people living in state care using the strengths and difficulties questionnaire

Child Care in Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-226

  McCrystal, Patrick ^a   McAloney, Kareena ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954837016     PISSN: 13575279     EISSN: 1476489X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13575271003755969     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Achenbach, T. M., & Edelbrock, C. (1983). Manual for the child behavior checklist and revised child behavior profile. Burlington: Department of Psychiatry University of Vermont.
2. Bamford, F., & Wolkind, S. N. (1988). The physical and mental health of children in care: Research methods. London: Economic Research Council.
3. Bamford Review of Mental Health and Learning Disability (Northern Ireland). (2007). Belfast: DHSSPS.
4. Beautrais, A. L., Joyce, P. R., & Mulder, R. T. (1999). Cannabis abuse and serious suicide attempts. Addiction, 94(8), 1155-1164.
5. Clausen, J. M., Landsverk, J., Ganger, W., Chadwick, D., & Litrownik, A. (1998). Mental health problems of children in foster care. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 7(3), 283-296.
6. Department of Health. (1997). People like us: The report of the review of the safeguards for children living away from home. London: The Stationery Office.
7. Department of Health. (2000). Framework for the assessment of children in need and their families. London: HMSO.
8. Department of Health. (2002). Promoting the health of looked after children. London: HMSO.
9. DHSSPS. (2007). Care matters in Northern Ireland*A bridge to a better future. Belfast:
10. DHSSPS. Dimigen, G., Del Priore, C., Butler, S., Evans, S., Ferguson, L., & Swan, M. (1999). Psychiatric disorder among children at time of entering local authority care: Questionnaire survey. BMJ, 319,675.
11. Frankish, S., & McCrossen, V. (2005). CAMHs made easy workshop. In Building and sustaining your service. VOYPIC Leaving Care Conference for Practitioners, Belfast, 11 May.
12. Glazebrook, C., Hollis, C., Heussler, H., Goodman, R., & Coates, L. (2003). Detecting emotional and behavioural problems in paediatric clinics. Child: Care, Health and Development, 29(2), 141-149.
13. Goodman, R. (1997). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. A research note. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 581-586.
14. Goodman, R. (2001). Psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 1337-1345.
15. Goodman, R., Ford, T., Corbin, T., & Meltzer, H. (2004). Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) multi-informant algorithm to screen looked after children for psychiatric disorders. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 13(2), 25-31.
16. Goodman, R., Ford, T., Simmons, H., Gatward, R., & Meltzer, H. (2000). Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to screen for child psychiatric disorders in a community sample. British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, 534-539.
17. Hill, C., & Watkins, J. (2003). Statutory health assessments for looked after children: What do they achieve? Child: Care, Health and Development, 29(11), 129-134.
18. Liabo, K., & Richardson, J (2008). Conduct disorder and offending behaviour in young people. Findings from research. London: Jessica Kingsley.
19. Madge, N., & Willmott, N. (2005). Looked after children and their mental health needs: A literature review. NCB, London. Unpublished manuscript.
20. McAuley, C. (2006). Outcomes of long-term foster care: Young people's views. In D. Iwaniec (Ed.), The child's journey through care (pp. 81-98). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
21. McCann, J. B., James, A., Wilson, S., & Dunn, G (1996). Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in young people in care. BMJ, 313, 1529-1530.
22. McCrystal, P., Percy, A., & Higgins, K. (2008). Substance use among young people living in residential state care. Child Care in Practice, 14(2), 181-192.
23. McMaster, I. (2004). Young people in regional care centres/youth justice. Belfast: DHSSPS.
24. McSherry, D., & Iwaniec, D. (2003). Residential care: An international perspective. Belfast: Institute of Child Care Research, Queen's University Belfast.
25. Meltzer, H., Gatward, R., Goodman, R., & Ford, T. (2000). Mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain. London: The Stationery Office.
26. Meltzer, H., Gatward, R., Corbin, T., Goodman, R., & Ford, T (2003). The mental health of young people looked after by local authorities in England. London: Office for National Statistics.
27. Meltzer, H., Lader, D., Corbin, T., Goodman, R., & Ford, T. (2004a). The mental health of young people looked after by local authorities in Scotland. London: The Stationery Office.
28. Meltzer, H., Lader, D., Corbin, T., Goodman, R., & Ford, T. (2004b). The mental health of young people looked after by local authorities in Wales. London: The Stationery Office.
29. Minty, B. (1999). Annotation: Outcomes in long-term foster family care. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 991-999.
30. Monti, P.M., Colby, S.M., Barnett, N.P., Spirito, A., Rohensow, D.J., Myers, M., Woolard, R., & Lewander, W. (1999). Brief intervention for harm reduction with alcohol-positive older adolescents in a hospital emergency department. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 67(6), 989-994.
31. Mullan, C., & Fitzsimmons, L (2006). CASPAR Project. The mental health of looked after children/ care leavers in Northern Ireland: A literature review. Belfast: VOYIC.
32. Muris, P., Meesters, C., & van den Berg, F. (2003). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ): Further evidence for its reliability and validity in a community sample of Dutch children and adolescents. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 12(1), 1-8.
33. Muris, P., Meesters, C., Eijkelenboom, A., & Vincken, M. (2004). The self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Its psychometric properties in 8 to 13-year old non- clinical children. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 43, 437-448.
34. Nicholas, B., Roberts, S., & Wurr, C. (2003). Looked after children in residential care. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 8(2), 78-83.
35. Patterson, J., Barlow, J., Mockford, C., Klimes, I., & Stewart-Brown, S. (2002). Improving mental health through parenting programmes: Block randomised controlled trial. Archives of Diseases in Childhood, 87, 472-477.
36. Payne, H., & Butler, I. (1998). Improving the health care process and determining outcomes for children looked after by local authority. Ambulatory Child Health, 4, 165-172.
37. Philips, J. (1997). Meeting the psychiatric needs of children in care. Psychiatric Bulletin, 21, 609-611.
38. Polany, L., Glaser, A., & Rao, V. (1994). Better health for children in residence care. Archives of Diseases in Children, 75, 263-265.
39. Prosser, H. (1978). Perspectives on foster care. Windsor: NFER.
40. Richardson, J., & Lelliot, C. (2000). Mental health of looked after children. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 9, 249-251.
41. Rutter, M. (2000). Children in substitute care: Some conceptual considerations and research implications. Children and Youth Services Review, 22(9/10), 685-703.
42. Scott, S., Spender, Q., Doolan, M., Jacobs, B., & Aspland, H. (2001). Multicentre controlled trial of parenting groups for childhood antisocial behaviour in clinical practice. BMJ, 323, 194.
43. Smedje, H., Broman, J. E., Hetta, J., & von Knorring, A. L. (1999). Psychometric properties of a Swedish version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 8, 63-70.
44. Stanley, N. (2002, 15 21 August). What young people want. Community Care, 36-37.
45. Teggart, T., & Menary, J. (2005). An investigation of the mental health needs of children looked after by Craigavon and Banbridge Social Services Trust. Child Care in Practice, 11(1), 39-49.
46. Teggart, T., & Linden, M. (2006). Investigating service users' and carers' views of child and adolescent mental health services in Northern Ireland. Child Care in Practice, 12(1), 27-41.
47. Tischler, V., Vostanis, P., Bellerby, T., & Cumella, S. (2002). Evaluation of a mental health outreach service for homeless families. Archives of Diseases in Childhood, 86, 158-163.
48. Triseliotis, J. (1989). Foster care outcomes: A review of key research findings. Adoption and Fostering, 13, 5-17.
49. Whyte, S. (2006). The application of multi-informant Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires (SDQs) with a sample of looked after children, aged 3 17, within the Antrim and Ballymena areas, as an evidenced based screening tool for care planning at looked after reviews. Unpublished dissertation, University of Ulster, Jordanstown.
50. Whyte, S., & Campbell, A. (2008). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A useful screening tool to identify mental health strengths and needs in looked after children and inform care plans at looked after children reviews? Child Care in Practice, 14(2), 193-206.
51. Wolkind, S., & Rushton, A. (1994). Residential and foster family care. In M. Rutter, E. Taylor, & L. Hersov (Eds.), Child and adolescent psychiatry (pp. 252-266). Oxford: Blackwell Scientific.