A significant body of research indicates that emotional maltreatment (EMT) is harmful to children, resulting in long-term negative impacts on emotional and behavioral development. The child welfare system's focus on physical abuse, physical neglect, and sexual abuse has led a relative lack of...

There is a limited amount of research examining the long-term impact of early mental health services on child outcomes. These analyses examined the outcomes associated with early mental health services in terms of the behavioral trajectories from ages 4 to 12 of a sample of 245 children...

Although access to mental health services is frequently studied as an issue of health disparity, little is known about the long-term impact of such services on children. The current study examined the relationship between early mental health services (before the age of 4 years old) on the...