Mental health service use for adolescents' internalizing problems: A comparison between four ethnic groups in the Netherlands

The objective of the current thesis was to increase our understanding of the ethnic differences in mental health service use for adolescents’ internalizing problems. In the first part of the thesis, we examined whether questionnaires assessing adolescents’ internalizing problems could be validly used across ethnic groups and more specifically whether the diagnostic utility of the instruments was comparable across four ethnic groups (i.e., native Dutch, Surinamese-Dutch, Turkish-Dutch, and Moroccan-Dutch). In the second part of the thesis, we focused specifically on the ethnic differences in me... Mehr ...