The Service Provider and Medication Usage Grids: A New Method to Measure "Treatment as Usual" (TAU)

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 423-434

  Mendenhall, Amy N ^a   Davidson, Kristen H ^b   Fristad, Mary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University ^*

Author keywords

Children's mental health; Medication; Service utilization; Treatment as usual

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549250001     PISSN: 07380151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10560-010-0214-9     Document Type: Article

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