Academic Publications

Academic Publications

Child and Youth Mental Health Research Reports: 3. Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Children and Youth

December 11th, 2002

The third Child and Youth Mental Health Research Report, prepared in October 2002, provides an update on the prevalence of mental disorders in children and youth, including new findings from recent epidemiological surveys.

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Child and Youth Mental Health Research Reports: 2. Draft Practice Parameters

November 11th, 2002

In the second Child and Youth Mental Health Research Report, produced in April 2002, preliminary research evidence was summarized in the form of draft interdisciplinary practice parameters for five key children’s mental disorders: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia.

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Child and Youth Mental Health Research Reports: 1. Population Health and Clinical Service Considerations

October 11th, 2002

To improve child and youth mental health outcomes in British Columbia, the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) has undertaken a comprehensive planning process.

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Child Psychiatric Epidemiology and Canadian Public Policy-Making: The State of the Science and the Art of the Possible

January 11th, 2002

Charlotte Waddell, David Offord, Cody A. Shepherd, Josephine M. Hua, and Kimberley McEwan (2002). Child psychiatric epidemiology and Canadian public policy-making: The state of the science and the art of the possible. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 47(9).

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Doing Better with “Bad Kids”: Explaining the Policy-Research Gap with Conduct Disorder in Canada

February 11th, 2001

Charlotte Waddell, Jonathan Lomas, David Offord, and Mita Giacomini. (2001). Doing better with “bad kids”: Explaining the policy-research gap with conduct disorder in Canada. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2001

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