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Appendix H

Committee and Consultant Biographies

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Thomas F. Boat, M.D. (Chair), is the dean emeritus of the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Earlier he was the director of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and chairman of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics. He also was physician-in-chief of Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati. He earned an M.D. at the University of Iowa. A pediatric pulmonologist by training, Dr. Boat worked early in his career to define the pathophysiology of airway dysfunction and more effective therapies for chronic lung diseases of childhood, such as cystic fibrosis. More recently he worked at local and national levels to improve child health research efforts, subspecialty training, and clinical care. He has a special interest in issues posed by children’s mental health for pediatric care, research, and training, and he is working in Cincinnati and nationally to promote children’s behavioral health. Dr. Boat joined Cincinnati Children’s in 1993 after serving as chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and served as co-chair of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation as well the IOM Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults. He has continued to advocate for children at risk as a member of the Board of Children, Youth, and Families of the

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He chaired IOM committees addressing Research Training in Psychiatry Residency: Strategies for Reform and Acceleration of Research and Orphan Product Development for Rare Diseases and also the Committee on Pediatric Studies Conducted under the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act and the Pediatric Research Equity Act. Dr. Boat has been a member of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc., board of directors, and served as its board president. He also has served as chair of the American Board of Pediatrics and president of both the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society.

Carl C. Bell, M.D., is currently practicing clinical psychiatry in Chicago, Illinois, at Jackson Park Hospital’s Family Practice Clinic, St. Bernard Hospital’s In-patient Psychiatric Unit, and the Psychosis Program in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the former director of the Institute for Juvenile Research and is a clinical professor of psychiatry and public health at the University of Illinois School of Medicine. He is also former president and chief executive officer of the Community Mental Health Council Foundation. For more than 40 years Dr. Bell has practiced psychiatry. As an internationally recognized lecturer and author, he has given numerous presentations on mental wellness, violence prevention, and traumatic stress caused by violence. In 2007 he was appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Children, Youth, and Families and Board on Health Care Services. These two boards sponsored the Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults: Research Advances and Promising Interventions that he served on for nearly 3 years. That work continued until the publication of the report in 2009. The report has driven much of the prevention legislation in the nation’s health care reform laws and continues to do so. Dr. Bell is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Law and Justice. He is the author of The Sanity of Survival: Reflections on Community Mental Health and Wellness and co-author of Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents. Dr. Bell has published more than 500 articles on mental health issues. His articles on mental health and violence prevention have appeared in the National Medical Association and Psychiatric Services Journal. He has addressed mental wellness and violence prevention issues on the Today Show, Nightline, 60 Minutes, CBS Sunday Morning, and Frontline, and his campaign to prevent black-on-black violence has been featured in several publications, including Ebony, Jet, Essence, Emerge, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune Magazine, and People magazine. In recognition of his efforts to reduce violence, he became the first recipient of the American Psychiatric Foundation’s Minority Service Award in 2004. He was presented the Special Presidential

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Commendation of the American Psychiatric Association in recognition of his outstanding advocacy for mental illness prevention and for person-centered mental health awareness and recovery and presented the Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2012. He was a founding executive committee member of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention by Pamela Hyde, administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2010, and he served on the National Research Council’s Committee on Assessing Juvenile Justice Reform of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education from 2010 to 2012.

Stephen L. Buka, Sc.D., M.S., M.A., is a professor and the chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the director of the Center for Population Health and Clinical Epidemiology at Brown University. With training in epidemiology and developmental psychology, he focuses in his work on the causes and prevention of major psychiatric and cognitive disorders of children, youth, and adults. His current research includes investigations of prenatal risks for schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder, and addictive disorders, including the use of neuroimaging and molecular genetics techniques; work on the long-term effects of maternal smoking on offspring health and behavior; studies of community-level influences on youth substance use and delinquency; and the development of community-based strategies for the prevention of adolescent drinking and drug use. He directs the New England Family Study, a 50-year, three-generation longitudinal study of 17,000 infants born in New England in the 1960s. This work provides a unique opportunity to identify both environmental and genetic factors that contribute to the etiology and, ideally, the prevention of major forms of psychiatric illness, and it is supported by several major foundations and sections of the National Institutes of Health.

E. Jane Costello, Ph.D., M.A., is a professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and is on the faculty of the Center for Child and Family Policy, where she serves as associate director of research. Dr. Costello was educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she received her Ph.D., and at the University of Pittsburgh, where she did postdoctoral work in psychiatric epidemiology. She has been on the faculty at Duke since 1988. Her work aims to integrate developmental psychopathology with epidemiology. She is the co-director of the Developmental Epidemiology Program at Duke, and for the past two decades she has been running a longitudinal, population-based study designed to examine the developmental origins and course of psychiatric and substance use disorders

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in young people and to study these young people’s need for and access to mental health care. She is currently one of the principal investigators on the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Gene-Environment-Development Initiative, which is conducting a genome-wide association study of risk for substance use disorders in more than 12,000 youth.

Maureen S. Durkin, Ph.D., Dr.P.H., M.P.H., received her undergraduate degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and her M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. degrees in epidemiology and her postdoctoral fellowship training in psychiatric epidemiology from Columbia University. Her research interests include the epidemiology, prevention, antecedents, and consequences of neurodevelopmental disabilities and childhood injuries, both globally and within the United States. She has collaborated in the development of cross-cultural methods for behavioral and developmental screening and assessment and methods for the surveillance of childhood injuries, and she has directed international studies of the prevalence and causes of childhood disabilities and mental health disorders in low-resource settings. She has also directed cohort studies of the neuropsychological outcomes of neonatal brain injuries associated with preterm birth and with metabolic disorders detected on newborn screening, and she is currently a Waisman Center investigator and principal investigator of the Wisconsin Surveillance of Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities System.

Glenace Edwall, Ph.D., Psy.D., L.P., M.P.P., is the former director of the Children’s Mental Health Division at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. As the director, she oversaw Minnesota’s county-administered children’s mental health service system and worked on public policy issues regarding mental health benefits for children provided through Medicaid. Additionally, she is the current chair of the Minnesota Child Psychologists and the past chair of the Children, Youth and Families Division of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Her professional and scholarly focus has been on socioemotional development and its influence on children’s mental health. In 2009 Dr. Edwall received the Nancy Latimer award for service and advocacy to the early childhood population. Dr. Edwall earned her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1983 and her Psy.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Denver in 1986. She also earned a master’s degree in public policy from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota in 2001. Dr. Edwall has been credentialed by the National Register since 1993.

Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Ph.D., is the vice chair for research in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Her research portfolio focuses on four areas:

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child, adolescent, and family service outcomes; parent engagement and activation; policy contexts; and quality metrics. She also works with the Division of Child, Adolescent and Family Services at the New York State Office of Mental Health. Dr. Hoagwood received her B.A. in English from American University in Washington, DC, and her M.A. in psychology from Catholic University in Washington, DC. She received her Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Dr. Hoagwood was a professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry at Columbia University. Before that, she was the associate director for child and adolescent mental health research in the Office of the Director at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she also directed the Child and Adolescent Services Research program for 10 years. Dr. Hoagwood is the director and principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health–funded Advanced Center on Implementation and Dissemination Science in States for Children and Families (also called the IDEAS Center). She also co-directs the Community Technical Assistance Center, funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health. She is a principal investigator on several other major grants and subcontracts, all focused on improving the quality of services and outcomes for children and families.

Amy Houtrow, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor and vice chair in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine; she also serves as the director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education–accredited Pediatric Rehabilitation Fellowship and as the chief of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Services at Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh. Dr. Houtrow completed her residencies in physical medicine and rehabilitation and pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in 2005; she is board certified in both disciplines with subspecialty certification in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine. She pursued a master’s in public health in the area of health policy and management at the University of Michigan, completing those studies in 2004. From 2005 to 2012 Dr. Houtrow was assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2012 she earned her Ph.D. with distinction in medical sociology. Dr. Houtrow’s main clinical focus is caring for children with disabling conditions and helping to improve function and quality of life. Her patients include children with spina bifida, cerebral palsy, rheumatologic disorders, brain and spinal cord injuries, and orthopaedic, musculoskeletal, and neurological disorders and conditions. Complementing her clinical focus, Dr. Houtrow’s research focus is on optimizing health services for children with disabilities, with an emphasis on recognizing the impact

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that raising children with disabilities has on families and on developing channels to improve service delivery to reduce disparities.

Peter S. Jensen, M.D., established the REACH Institute in May 2006, following service as the founding director of the Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia as its Ruane Professor of Child Psychiatry (where he served from 2000 to 2007), he was the associate director of child and adolescent research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). While at NIMH (1989–2000), Dr. Jensen was the lead NIMH investigator on the landmark study of multimodal treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as well as an investigator on other national multisite studies. Dr. Jensen most recently served as a professor of psychiatry and the vice chair for research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, before retiring in June 2013 to resume full-time duties at the REACH Institute. A world-renowned child psychiatrist, Dr. Jensen is a passionate advocate for children with emotional and behavioral disorders and their families. His major work and research interests include identifying, disseminating, and implementing evidence-based mental health treatments. Dr. Jensen serves on many editorial and scientific advisory boards, has authored more than 270 scientific articles and book chapters, and has written or co-edited 20 books on children’s mental health. His many awards include the Norbert Reiger Award (1990–1996) and the Irving Philips Prevention Award (2011) from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Agnes Purcell McGavin Award (1996) and the Blanche Ittleson Award (1998) from the American Psychiatric Association. He has also been honored by the American Psychological Association, the Association for Child Psychiatric Nursing, the National Alliance for the Mental Ill, and CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder). Dr. Jensen received his bachelor’s degree with high honors from Brigham Young University (1974) and his medical degree from George Washington University Medical School (1978, Alpha Omega Alpha), and he completed his postgraduate training in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Letterman Army Medical Center.

Kelly J. Kelleher, M.D., M.P.H., is ADS/Chlapaty Endowed Chair and a professor of pediatrics and public health in the Department of Pediatrics at the Colleges of Medicine and Public Health at Ohio State University. He is the vice president for community health and services research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the vice president of community health services research and the director of the Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He

Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Committee and Consultant Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Mental Disorders and Disabilities Among Low-Income Children. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21780.
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earned his M.D. in 1984 from Ohio State University, completed his pediatric residency at Northwestern University in 1987, and obtained an M.P.H. in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1988. Dr. Kelleher’s research interests focus on the accessibility, effectiveness, and quality of health care services for children and their families, especially those affected by mental disorders, substance abuse, or violence. He has a longstanding interest in formal outcomes research for mental health and substance abuse services.

James M. Perrin, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a former director of the Division of General Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for Children and past associate chair of pediatrics for research at MGH. He founded the MGH Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, a multidisciplinary research and training center with an active fellowship program in general pediatrics, and directed the center for more than 15 years. He is the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a former chair of its Committee on Children with Disabilities, and a past president of the Ambulatory (Academic) Pediatric Association. For the AAP, he also co-chaired a committee to develop practice guidelines for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and then a group advising the AAP on the implementation of the guidelines. His research has examined asthma, middle ear disease, children’s hospitalization, health insurance, and childhood chronic illness and disabilities, with recent emphases on the epidemiology of childhood chronic illness and the organization of services for the care of children and adolescents with chronic health conditions. He heads the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health, a multisite collaborative aiming to improve evidence-based care for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. He also directed the Evidence Working Group reporting to the Maternal and Child Health Bureau for the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children. Dr. Perrin was the founding editor of Academic Pediatrics (formerly known as Ambulatory Pediatrics), the journal of the Academic Pediatric Association. Dr. Perrin has served on Institute of Medicine committees on Maternal and Child Health under Health Care Reform, Quality of Long-Term-Care Services in Home and Community-Based Settings, Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs, and Disability in America. He has also served on the National Commission on Childhood Disability and the Disability Policy Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance. His experience includes 2 years in Washington, DC, working on rural primary care development and migrant health. After his fellowship at the University of Rochester, he developed and ran a rural community health center in farming communities between Rochester and Buffalo. He received

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a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He also served as a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. A graduate of Harvard College and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, he had his residency and fellowship training at the University of Rochester and has also been on the faculties of the University of Rochester and Vanderbilt University.

Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale University Child Study Center, School of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Illinois, where he received an undergraduate degree in psychology in 1972, and of Stanford University, where he received his M.D. and a master’s degree in psychology in 1976, Dr. Volkmar was the primary author of the autism and pervasive developmental disorders section in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV). He is the author of several hundred scientific papers and chapters as well as a number of books, including Asperger’s Syndrome (Guilford Press), Health Care for Children on the Autism Spectrum (Woodbine Publishing), the Handbook of Autism (Wiley Publishing), and A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent, Teacher and Family Member Needs to Know (Wiley Publishing), with another three books in varying stages of production. He has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Psychiatry. He currently serves as editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. He has served as co-chairperson of the autism/intellectual disabilities committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition to having directed the internationally known autism clinic, he also served as director of autism research at Yale before becoming chairperson of the department. Dr. Volkmar has been the principal investigator of three program project grants, including a CPEA (Collaborative Program of Excellent in Autism) grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a STAART (Studies to Advance Autism Research and Treatment) Autism Center Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Barbara Wolfe, Ph.D., is the Richard A. Easterlin Professor of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Public Affairs and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses broadly on poverty and health issues. Her current projects examine whether housing voucher programs lead to better school performance of children in the household and increase the probability of attending postsecondary school; the effect of health shocks after individuals

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retire on their adequacy of resources during their first decade of retirement; how poverty influences critical brain areas among young children; and the influence of growing up with a sibling who has a developmental disability or mental illness, a sibling who is adopted, or a sibling who dies on outcomes as a young adult. Her recent work addresses the effects of welfare reform; the economics of disability; ties among income, wealth, and health; racial disparities in health; and the intergenerational determinants of success in young adults. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, recently serving on its standing committee on Family Planning and a committee addressing improving access to oral health care. She served as vice chair of the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine Board on Children, Youth, and Families and as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars program. Dr. Wolfe’s recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Economy Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, and Demography. She received her doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bonnie T. Zima, M.D., M.P.H., is the associate director of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute’s Health Services Research Center and a professor-in-residence in the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is also the director of training in child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Zima’s research focuses on the level of unmet need for mental health services among high-risk child populations with limited access to care (homeless, foster care, juvenile hall) as well as the quality of care for children served in publicly funded primary and specialty mental health care settings. She received her M.D. from Rush Medical College and her M.P.H. from the UCLA School of Public Health. In partnership with the Los Angeles County departments of mental health and probation, Dr. Zima is leading a 3-year study on the level of mental health problems, service use, and short-term outcomes among a county-wide sample of youth detained in juvenile hall. Additionally, Dr. Zima is the principal investigator for the Caring for California Initiative Project, assessing how service use and quality of care relate to key organizational and client-level characteristics of publicly funded child mental health services in selected counties. Recently, Dr. Zima was funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to lead a 5-year study to examine the quality of care for school-aged children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Zima also conducted a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation–funded study of mental health problems and service use among school-aged children and their parents living

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in emergency homeless family shelters in Los Angeles County. She led an NIMH study on the level of mental health problems, violence exposure, service utilization patterns, and psychotropic medication use among more than 300 school-aged children living in foster care in Los Angeles County.

CONSULTANTS

Howard H. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Goldman received joint M.D./M.P.H. degrees from Harvard University in 1974 and a Ph.D. in social policy research from the Heller School at Brandeis University in 1978. He is the author or co-author of 325 publications in the professional literature. Dr. Goldman is the editor of Psychiatric Services, a mental health services research and policy journal published monthly by the American Psychiatric Association. He also has served on the editorial boards of several other journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry, Health Affairs, and the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. Dr. Goldman served as the senior scientific editor of the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health from 1997 to 1999 for which he was awarded the Surgeon General’s Medallion. During 2002 and 2003 Dr. Goldman was a consultant to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. In 1996 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Social Insurance, and in 2002 he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Goldman has chaired the Institute of Medicine Standing Committee to Provide Medical Advice to the Disability Program of the Social Security Administration since 2009.

Ruth E. K. Stein, M.D., is a developmental–behavioral pediatrician who works in research and advocacy for children, especially those with chronic health conditions. She is a professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Her research has been supported by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, National Institute of Mental Health, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Health Resources and Services Administration, and numerous foundations. Dr. Stein has received several awards for her research and lifetime achievements. She has authored or co-authored more than 200 publications and has edited four books. Dr. Stein is a past president of the Academic Pediatric Association and a member of the Research Consortium on Children with Chronic Conditions. She served on the executive committee of the board of directors of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Center for Child Health Research and its Behavioral Pediatrics Consortium and on the Board of Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council, where she co-chaired the board’s study on

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the Evaluation of Child Health, Safety and Well-Being. She also is on the steering committee and faculty of the REACH Institute’s program to teach mental health care to primary care practitioners and the steering committee of DBPNet, a research network of developmental–behavioral pediatric centers. Dr. Stein has been a member of the IOM’s Standing Committee to Provide Medical Advice to the Disability Program of the Social Security Administration since 2011.

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Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3 million children who were recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits in 2013, about 50% were disabled primarily due to a mental disorder. An increase in the number of children who are recipients of SSI benefits due to mental disorders has been observed through several decades of the program beginning in 1985 and continuing through 2010. Nevertheless, less than 1% of children in the United States are recipients of SSI disability benefits for a mental disorder.

At the request of the Social Security Administration, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children compares national trends in the number of children with mental disorders with the trends in the number of children receiving benefits from the SSI program, and describes the possible factors that may contribute to any differences between the two groups. This report provides an overview of the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, and the levels of impairment in the U.S. population under age 18. The report focuses on 6 mental disorders, chosen due to their prevalence and the severity of disability attributed to those disorders within the SSI disability program: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. While this report is not a comprehensive discussion of these disorders, Mental Disorders and Disability Among Low-Income Children provides the best currently available information regarding demographics, diagnosis, treatment, and expectations for the disorder time course - both the natural course and under treatment.

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