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This paper focuses on the results of an exploratory study conducted to describe the characteristics of the families and children served in one rural state's intensive child case management program for families with children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances, and to explore the relationship between these characteristics and case managers' contact with families. Findings suggest that case managers spend more time with families of boys, and with children exhibiting more severe difficulties in daily functioning. Implications for the provision of intensive child case management services are discussed.
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Werrbach, G.B. Providing Intensive Child Case Management Services: How Do Case Managers Spend Their Time?. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 19, 473–486 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021197730381
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