Mental Health in Child Welfare

The Summer 2003 issue of Best Practice/Next Practice addresses a number of issues surrounding mental health and mental health care in child welfare, including:

• A review of the mental health problems that can affect children and adolescents.
• The role of foster families as partners in mental health treatment.
• The optimal array of mental health services needed to support children in the child welfare system and the challenges to providing such services.
• Ways in which children of mentally ill parents can be supported.
• Information on the discrepancy in mental health referral patterns for children of different races.

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