Lionel D. Scott

TL;DR: Older youths in the foster care system have disproportionately high rates of lifetime and past year psychiatric disorders, and recommendations for initial and periodic mental health assessments for these youths and mechanisms to continue mental health services for young adults transitioning out of the Foster care system are supported.

TL;DR: The authors explored whether the strategies used by African American adolescents to cope with perceived discriminatory experiences were related to their racial identity and racial social identity and found that the strategies were associated with their race identity and race social status.

TL;DR: The child welfare system was actively engaged in arranging mental health services for youths in the foster care system, but the system was unable to maintain many youths in less restrictive living situations.

TL;DR: Prevalence and predictors of current and lifetime substance use, substance abuse disorder, and polysubstance use among older youth in foster care and youth with a diagnosis of Conduct Disorder or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are explored.

TL;DR: The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of the non-kin natural mentoring relationships among 19-year-old youths in the process of "aging out" of the foster care system in Missouri.