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Mentally Ill Children.
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1981
Estimates suggest that about 15% of all children have some form of mental disturbance. Potential causes can be of a physical, psychological, or environmental origin. Symptoms which indicate that a child needs professional help usually involve emotional overreaction to changes. Diagnosis of a child evidencing symptoms of mental illness should take…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Needs, Children, Educational Responsibility
The New Welfare Law and Vulnerable Families: Implications for Child Welfare/Child Protection Systems. Children and Welfare Reform Issue Brief 3.
Knitzer, Jane; Bernard, Stanley – 1997
This report examines the potential impact of federal welfare legislation, Public Law 104-193, The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, on vulnerable families already in or at risk of entering the child welfare/child protection systems. The report includes an overview of the challenges states face; questions for state…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Children
Supplemental Security Income: SSA Needs a Uniform Standard for Assessing Childhood Disability. Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1998
This report presents the Government Accounting Office's recommendations regarding standards for determining eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) based on a childhood disability. The report is based on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) monitoring of 288,000 children whose eligibility was subject to review and of 370,000 new…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Decision Making, Disabilities
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Childhood Trauma: A Proposed Addition to the APA DSM-IV-R.
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Quinn, Kathleen L. – 1992
Literature exists to support the statement that children suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The diagnosis is not one that is commonly made in children and is generally considered occurring in returning war veterans or adult victims of trauma, including incest. The American Psychological Association (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Children, Clinical Diagnosis
A Decade of Child Support Enforcement 1975-1985. Volume I. Tenth Annual Report to Congress for the Period Ending September 30, 1985.
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Office of Child Support Enforcement (DHHS), Washington, DC. – 1985
This document is the first volume of a two-volume set of reports on child support enforcement. Volume I contains information on the dimensions of the nonsupport problem in the United States, stressing that of the 8.7 million women who were caring for children in fatherless homes in 1983, only 58% had court orders or agreements to receive child…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Compliance (Legal), Divorce
Child Health Assessment Act and Increased Medicaid Funding for Puerto Rico. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 9434 and S. 1392.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1978
This Congressional hearing records the testimony of administration and public witnesses on H.R. 9434 and S. 1392 and includes the texts of the legislation. H.R. 9434 is an act to amend the social security act to increase the dollar limitation and federal medical assistance percentages applicable to the medicaid programs of Puerto Rico, the Virgin…
Descriptors: Children, Dental Health, Feasibility Studies, Federal Legislation