Sentences with phrase «detection of emotional problems»

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Research has shown that medical patients who develop emotional health problems cost more to treat and respond less well to treatment; as a result, says Ahern, «it behooves the medical system to do a better job in detection and treatment of behavioral health because it drives outcomes and drives the costs.»

Community clergymen can therefore move into action in the prevention of mental and emotional disturbances in each of these three areas: (1) by using the mental health center resources to make their total pastoral ministry more effective in the early detection of problems; (2) by becoming more comfortable in the use of their own style of helping troubled people so that some crisis situations can be contained; (3) by using the rich resources of social concern in the churches to attack the wider problems out of which so many individual cases of emotional disturbance arise.

Even when a child or adolescent is well known in a pediatric practice, only 50 % of those with clinically significant behavioral and emotional problems are detected.23 Other investigators have found similarly high failure of detection rates ranging from 14 % to 40 %.22, 24 Surveyed pediatricians, however, overwhelmingly endorse that they should be responsible for identifying children with ADHD, eating disorders, depression, substance abuse, and behavior problems.26

This report also (1) reviews the prevalence of behavioral and emotional disorders, (2) describes factors affecting the emergence of behavioral and emotional problems, (3) articulates the current state of detection of these problems in pediatric primary care, (4) describes barriers to screening and means to overcome those barriers, and (5) discusses potential changes at a practice and systems level that are needed to facilitate successful behavioral and emotional screening.

There is increasing recognition of the importance of early detection and provision of intervention services for infants and toddlers with significant social - emotional and / or behavioral problems (AAP, 2001; U.S. Public Health Service, 2000).

Development during the prenatal period, infancy and childhood is known to influence lifelong health, 1 — 4 and the link between early - life health and adult outcomes is strong and economically meaningful.5 Promotion of optimal child development and well - being comprises early detection and treatment of whole families, and it can potentially prevent the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children and adolescents.6

The Child Behavior Checklist 1.5 — 5 (CBCL1.5 — 5)[14] and Infant - Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA)[15,16] are early detection instruments that are well - validated and measure a broad range of psychosocial problems, and in the case of the ITSEA also delays in competencies.

Its applicability and screening qualities for the detection of early social — emotional difficulties and development problems were compared with those of other available tools, namely, the CBCL 1 1/2 — 5 (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000) and the Parenting Stress Index — Short Form (PSI - SF; Abidin, 1995).