Evens C C, Vander Stoep A
Seattle Children's Home, WA 98199, USA.
J Ment Health Adm. 1997 Fall;24(4):443-55. doi: 10.1007/BF02790505.
The objective of this study is to identify, through the use of secondary data, risk factors for juvenile justice system involvement among children entering a public mental health system. Data-sharing agreements between juvenile justice and mental health systems enabled investigators to examine criminal referrals among 645 children between the ages of 10 to 17 who entered community-based public mental health programs in King County, Washington, over the course of a single year. Univariate and logistic regression analyses were performed. Adjusting for age, gender, and ethnicity, children involved in the public mental health system who had juvenile justice referrals were more likely than children involved in the mental health system without juvenile justice referrals to have parents with a history of incarceration, to abuse drugs and/or alcohol, and to have experienced physical abuse. The study shows that some children who receive public mental health services are at particular risk of having an encounter with the juvenile justice system. Understanding the characteristics and experiences of youth who use multiple service systems has important implications for children's mental health services delivery.
本研究的目的是通过使用二手数据，确定进入公共心理健康系统的儿童中涉及少年司法系统的风险因素。少年司法系统与心理健康系统之间的数据共享协议使研究人员能够调查华盛顿州金县在一年时间内进入社区公共心理健康项目的645名10至17岁儿童的刑事转介情况。进行了单变量和逻辑回归分析。在对年龄、性别和种族进行调整后，涉及少年司法转介的公共心理健康系统儿童比未涉及少年司法转介的心理健康系统儿童更有可能有父母被监禁的历史、滥用毒品和/或酒精，以及遭受身体虐待。该研究表明，一些接受公共心理健康服务的儿童特别有可能与少年司法系统接触。了解使用多种服务系统的青少年的特征和经历对儿童心理健康服务的提供具有重要意义。
