An expanding literature base indicates the incidence and prevalence of
emotional/behavioral problems in young children is increasing. The US Department of …

By current estimates, at any given time, approximately 11% to 20% of children in the United
States have a behavioral or emotional disorder, as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical …

The early identification and remediation of emotional or behavior disorders are high
priorities for early-childhood researchers and are based on the assumption that problems …

OBJECTIVE: The US Surgeon General has called for new approaches to close the mental
health services gap for the large proportion of US children with significant mental health …

OBJECTIVE: This article presents the 12-month prevalence estimates of specific mental
disorders, their social and demographic correlates, and service use patterns in children and …

BACKGROUND. Recent children's health surveys have documented a high prevalence of
emotional, developmental, and behavioral problems among children. Data from the 2003 …

Mental disorders among children are described as" serious deviations from expected
cognitive, social, and emotional development"(US Department of Health and Human …

Methods| Data were from the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health, a nationally
representative, parent-proxy survey of US children younger than 18 years. 5 The completion …

The purpose of this report is to present the findings of a group of technical experts who met
to consider estimation methodologies for establishing prevalence of children with serious …

This article summarizes some of the progress made in serving children with emotional
disorders and their families during the 1980s, and it provides an overview of the status of the …