Mental health beliefs and barriers to accessing mental health services in youth aging out of foster care

Academic Pediatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 565-573

  Sakai, Christina ^a   Mackie, Thomas I ^a   Shetgiri, Rashmi ^b,c   Franzen, Sara ^c   Partap, Anu ^b,c   Flores, Glenn ^b,c   Leslie, Laurel K ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Foster care; Health care transition; Mental health; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SELF CONCEPT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; ADOLESCENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAID; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOSTER HOME CARE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923171317     PISSN: 18762859     EISSN: 18762867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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