Mental disorders into adulthood among adolescents placed in residential care: A prospective 10-year follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child welfare and juvenile justice placed youths show high levels of psychosocial burden and high rates of mental disorders. It remains unclear how mental disorders develop into adulthood in these populations. The aim was to present the rates of mental disorders in adolescence and adulthood in child welfare and juvenile justice samples and to examine their mental health trajectories from adolescence into adulthood.

Methods

Seventy adolescents in shared residential care, placed by child welfare (n = 52, mean age = 15 years) or juvenile justice (n = 18, mean age = 17 years) authorities, were followed up into adulthood (child welfare: mean age = 25 years; juvenile justice: mean age = 27 years). Mental disorders were assessed based on the International C

SUBMITTER: Seker S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9280920 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature