Title

Reasons Young Children Are Referred For Psychological Services

Keywords

Children; Mother ratings; Mothers' referrals; Psychological services; Self ratings

Abstract

In an effort to understand the reasons that young children might be referred for psychological services, ratings provided by mothers who had contacted a psychology clinic were compared to those provided by mothers who were college students. Results of this study suggest that children who were referred for psychological services were rated as having significantly higher levels of internalizing, externalizing, and total behavior problems as well as significantly lower levels of competence. Mothers of referred children rated themselves as having significantly lower levels of positive perceptions and higher levels of negative perceptions toward their children. These mothers also endorsed significantly lower levels of limit setting and higher levels of parenting stress. Mothers did not differ in their own characteristics. These findings suggest that interventions for young children and their families should be designed to address the emotional and behavioral functioning of the children as well as the parent-child relationship. © 2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

12-22-2005

Publication Title

Child and Family Behavior Therapy

Volume

27

Issue

3

Number of Pages

61-71

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1300/J019v27n03_05

Socpus ID

29144481846 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/29144481846

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