How transition between an age-differentiated mental health system creates strain and criminological risk : a scoping review

Abstract

Youth with mental health problems face a multitude of problems and barriers when they transition from a youth to an adult mental health system, including: displacement form treatment or services, issues with health care coverage, trouble qualifying or accessing continued care upon transition, and disengagement from mental health services altogether. However, how transition is a strain itself, and how it impacts help-seeking and increases criminological risk has rarely been conceptualized. A scoping review was conducted to collect and synthesize the effects of this process. Seven articles were identified as relevant and the transition process was found to produce strain and criminological risk through two key areas of the transition process: administrative transitions and developmental transitions.