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The Great Divide: How Mental Health Policy Fails Young Adults

Davis, Maryann
Koroloff, Nancy
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Abstract: All individuals are challenged by the movement from being an adolescent living at home and attending school to being an adult typically heading a household and working to support him or herself. This period of time is called the transition to adulthood and is even more challenging for youth from vulnerable populations such as youth with disabilities, in foster care, in juvenile justice system, and the like (Osgood, Foster, Flanagan, & Ruth, 2005). The ages that transition encompasses have not gained consensus in research literature or policy. It begins at ages 14–16 in policies such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; PL101-476, 1997 and 2004 amendments) or Federal programs such as the Social Security Administration's SSI Youth Transition Demonstration Projects, which identifies ages 22 and 25, respectively, as ending transition. Recent studies on young adulthood in the general population (Settersten, Frustenberg, & Rumbaut, 2005), found that by age 30, the rapid changes of young adulthood had typically stabilized. Thus, using the broadest ages indicated by policy and research, transition to stable adulthood encompasses ages 14–30.

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Davis, M., & Koroloff, N. (2006). The Great Divide: How Mental Health Policy Fails Young Adults, in William H. Fisher (ed.), Research on Community-Based Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents (Research in Community and Mental Health, Volume 14), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.53-74. DOI 10.1016/S0192-0812(06)14004-0

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