Minn-LInK Edition 38: Environmental Risks and Children's Mental Health Treatment Outcomes - A Person-centered Analysis

Minn-LInK Report Brief—Special Topic No. 38, Spring 2019
Author: Witham, M. A.

The purpose of this study was to (a) determine if there is evidence of post-treatment symptom reduction for a racially-diverse sample of children and adolescents served by a community-based mental health clinic, (b) identify subgroups of children by environmental risk, and (c) determine if there are differences between subgroups on outcome change scores.

  1. Do children who receive mental health treatment show significant symptom reduction on pre- to post-treatment measures?
  2. Are there meaningful homogeneous groups of children that can be identified based on environmental risk factors?
  3. Do changes in symptomology differ by identified environmental risk subgroups?