The Risks To Children & Adolescents Posed By Substance Abuse

As health plans and provider organization executives look to manage the risk of the populations that they are caring for, the ability to understand the unique risks to children and adolescents is essential. The Magellan Healthcare Children's Services Work Group wrote a white paper, "Understanding and Meeting the Needs of Children and Adolescents at High Risk: Foundations of a Model," which discusses the risk to children and adolescents who have parents with mental health/addictive disorders and the risk to children of developing substance abuse disorders.

Social, community and clinical programs designed to be developmentally informed have historically been . . .