The applicant is requesting five years of funding through the Mentored Career Development Award (K01) program to develop her skills for research on cross-culturally responsive mental health services for children and adolescents, and specifically, to examine school and parent factors in the service entry pathway that may result in differential racial/ethnic representation in school-based and traditional mental health services. The ultimate goal is to have the expertise to offer empirically supported recommendations on ways to promote appropriate service use and to apply such knowledge to large scale studies for systems that seek to be cross- culturally responsive. The applicant's strong background of academic and research training outpatient mental health services, ethnic minority mental health issues (with an expertise on Asian American populations), multiple parties in child service use, child psychopathology, and multiple sectors of care provides an excellent foundation for this work. The proposed training goals, including obtaining greater knowledge of schools and school-based mental health services, increasing knowledge of diverse populations, and developing longitudinal data analysis skills, will allow the applicant to pursue multi-sector, multi-cultural, longitudinal research on issues dealing with systemic cross-cultural competence with children. The research plan for this award utilizes the training activities to examine the pathways of youth with emotional/behavioral problems into school- based/mental health services. Two hundred youth (stratified by four racial/ethnic groups) who have emotional/behavioral problems will be identified, and parallel school and parent data will be collected at each of three proposed junctures in the service entry pathway: Judgement of an Emotion/Behavior (E/B) as Problematic, Interpretation of an E/B as Mental Health-Related, and Service Seeking/Referral. Racial/ethnic differences at the three junctures, relationships between the junctures and eventual service entry, and racial/ethnic differences in service entry pathway models will be examined. The data collected will form the basis for a future R01 research project to develop and test the effectiveness of strategies designed to improve appropriate service entry by youth in need.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Research Scientist Development Award - Research & Training (K01)
Project #
5K01MH001767-02
Application #
6185684
Study Section
Services Research Review Committee (SER)
Program Officer
Ringeisen, Heather
Project Start
1999-09-01
Project End
2004-08-31
Budget Start
2000-09-01
Budget End
2001-08-31
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$112,696
Indirect Cost
Name
Children's Hospital & Res Ctr at Oakland
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
San Diego
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
92123
Yeh, May; Aarons, Gregory A; Ho, Judy et al. (2014) Parental etiological explanations and longitudinal medication use for youths with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Adm Policy Ment Health 41:401-9
Yeh, May; McCabe, Kristen; Hough, Richard L et al. (2005) Why bother with beliefs? Examining relationships between race/ethnicity, parental beliefs about causes of child problems, and mental health service use. J Consult Clin Psychol 73:800-7
Lau, Anna S; McCabe, Kristen M; Yeh, May et al. (2005) The acculturation gap-distress hypothesis among high-risk Mexican American families. J Fam Psychol 19:367-75
Garland, Ann F; Lau, Anna S; Yeh, May et al. (2005) Racial and ethnic differences in utilization of mental health services among high-risk youths. Am J Psychiatry 162:1336-43
Yeh, May; Hough, Richard L; McCabe, Kristen et al. (2004) Parental beliefs about the causes of child problems: exploring racial/ethnic patterns. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:605-12
McCabe, Kristen M; Rodgers, Carie; Yeh, May et al. (2004) Gender differences in childhood onset conduct disorder. Dev Psychopathol 16:179-92
Yeh, May; McCabe, Kristen; Hough, Richard L et al. (2003) Racial/ethnic differences in parental endorsement of barriers to mental health services for youth. Ment Health Serv Res 5:65-77
Lau, Anna S; McCabe, Kristen M; Yeh, May et al. (2003) Race/Ethnicity and rates of self-reported maltreatment among high-risk youth in public sectors of care. Child Maltreat 8:183-94
McCabe, Kristen M; Yeh, May; Lau, Anna et al. (2003) Racial/ethnic differences in caregiver strain and perceived social support among parents of youth with emotional and behavioral problems. Ment Health Serv Res 5:137-47
Yeh, May; McCabe, Kristen; Hurlburt, Michael et al. (2002) Referral sources, diagnoses, and service types of youth in public outpatient mental health care: a focus on ethnic minorities. J Behav Health Serv Res 29:45-60

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