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Adolescent Mental Health: Service Settings and Reasons for Receiving Care

The NSDUH Report - - Adolescent Mental Health: Service Settings and Reasons for Receiving Care

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  • SAMHSA's 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health provides data on the types of mental health settings where youth aged 12 to 17 received treatment or counseling for problems with behavior or emotions in the past year: 12.5% received their treatment or counseling in a specialty mental health setting, 11.5% in an educational setting, and 2.8% in a general medical setting. One in twenty (5.1%) of the youth received treatment or counseling for their behavioral or emotional problems in both a specialty mental health setting and an educational or general medical setting.
  • The most common reasons for which the youth received mental health services were: feeling depressed (50%), problems at home/family (28.8%), breaking rules or "acting out" (25.1%) and thought about killing self or tried to kill self (20.2%).
  • While there were no gender differences in the receipt of care in inpatient specialty settings, female youth were more likely than males to receive mental health services in outpatient specialty, educational, or general medical settings.

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This Short Report, The NSDUH Report - - Adolescent Mental Health: Service Settings and Reasons for Receiving Care,  is based on SAMHSA's  National Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected mental health measures in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use and for selected mental health measures by State.

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