Communicating about Mental Health with Youth and Their Families: A Scoping Review of Best Practices and Implications for Youth with Disabilities.

Minimal attention has been placed on supporting the mental health needs of youth with disabilities. Due to a dearth of research on best practices in mental health communication with youth with disabilities, the aim of the scoping review was to identify existing peer-reviewed evidence regarding mental health communication for the general youth population in clinical settings. Three electronic databases were searched.

Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Profile in Boys With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a progressive neuromuscular condition that has a high rate of cognitive and learning disabilities as well as neurobehavioral disorders, some of which have been associated with disruption of dystrophin isoforms. Retrospective cohort of 59 boys investigated the cognitive and neurobehavioral profile of boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Full-scale IQ of < 70 was seen in 27%; learning disability in 44%, intellectual disability in 19%; attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 32%; autism spectrum disorders in 15%; and anxiety in 27%.

Giving Youth a Voice (GYV): a measure of youths' perceptions of the client-centredness of rehabilitation services.

Background: Although client-centred care is regarded as the optimum way of delivering health care, there is currently no method to measure the client-centredness of services for youth with disabilities.

Purpose: To develop a measure of youths' perceptions of the client-centredness of health care services in rehabilitation.

Methods: The Giving Youth a Voice (GYV) questionnaire was adapted from the Measure of Processes of Care, a measure of caregiving from the perspective of parents.