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A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health Services: Possible Solutions to Current Service Inadequacies

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  1. George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, Campus Box 1196, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA

    Arlene Rubin Stiffman

  2. Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership/ValueOptions, Boston, MA, USA

    Wayne Stelk

  3. Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Sarah McCue Horwitz

  4. College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Mary E. Evans

  5. Division of Special Populations and Minority Services, Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, Gatlinburg, TN, USA

    Freida Hopkins Outlaw

  6. Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA

    Marc Atkins

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Stiffman, A.R., Stelk, W., Horwitz, S.M. et al. A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health Services: Possible Solutions to Current Service Inadequacies. Adm Policy Ment Health 37, 120–124 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-009-0259-2

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