Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ArticlesFormal Help-Seeking Behavior of Adolescents Identifying Themselves as Having Mental Health Problems
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Part of this paper was presented at the Society for Psychotherapy Research Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, June 1992.
This study was supported in part by National Institutes of Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research Training Project grant H133B910004 and the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health grant MCJ-273A-03-01 to the National Adolescent Health Resource Center.