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What Tin Parents Do? A Review of State Laws Regarding Determination Making for Adolescent Drug Corruption and Mental Health Handling

MaryLouise Eastward. Kerwin

^aTreatment Enquiry Found

^bRowan University

Kimberly C. Kirby

^aTreatment Research Institute

^cUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Dominic Speziali

^dRutgers Academy

Morgan Duggan

^bRowan Academy

Cynthia Mellitz

^bRowan University

Brian Versek

^aTreatment Research Institute

Ashley McNamara

^aTreatment Research Institute

Abstract

This study examined US state laws regarding parental and adolescent decision-making for substance use and mental wellness inpatient and outpatient treatment. State statues for requiring parental consent favored mental wellness over drug abuse treatment and inpatient over outpatient modalities. Parental consent was sufficient in 53%–61% of the states for inpatient handling, just but for 39% – 46% of usa for outpatient treatment. State laws favored the rights of minors to access drug treatment without parental consent, and to exercise so at a younger age than for mental health treatment. Implications for how these laws may touch on parents seeking help for their children are discussed.

Keywords: decision-making authority, consent, country laws, treatment

Parents and guardians are responsible for creating and fostering a prophylactic, healthy, and stimulating surround to maximize their child'south growth until the age of bulk. Unfortunately, adolescents sometimes challenge this parental obligation by engaging in risky behaviors that compromise their health and well-beingness. Equally a effect, parents of these adolescents are faced with the formidable chore of trying to obtain treatment for their kid at a time when many adolescents may non agree that they need treatment or may object to treatment. In 2010, about 1.8 million youths (12–17) in the United states of america needed treatment for an alcohol or illicit drug utilise problem (SAMHSA, 2011); all the same, rates of treatment for boyish substance abusers are low (6%–x%) and have remained stable over the past 22 years (Ilgen et al., 2011). Explanations for this treatment gap include the pervasive stigma associated with substance utilise disorders (SUD), fiscal barriers, lack of confidence in the effectiveness of handling, lack of motivation by the boyish to seek handling, and deprival that bug associated with substance utilise in adolescence require handling (Ballon, Kirst, & Smith, 2004; Mensinger, Diamond, Kaminer, & Wintersteen, 2006; Owens et al., 2002; Simmons et al., 2008). However, one bulwark that is not discussed often is the possible legal barrier confronting parents who want to secure treatment for their adolescent's substance utilize. Whereas parents have the authority to consent for medical treatment for their children for most problems up to the age of majority in nearly states (Commission on Bioethics, 1995, reaffirmed in 2007), it is unclear if land laws assist or hinder parents who recognize that their children need substance abuse or mental wellness treatment. ^ane

Starting in the late 1960s, the federal government and states began to recognize that the interests of minors, their parents, and the state were not always congruent with one another (English language, 2002; Melton & Wilcox, 1989). Health professionals recognized that adolescents might exist discouraged from seeking assist for personal bug if parents were told most the adolescent's concerns and behaviors (Committee on Bioethics, 1995; Council for Scientific Affairs, 1993; Ford, Bearman, & Moody, 1999; Marks, Malizio, Hoch, Brody, & Fisher, 1983; Gild for Adolescent Medicine, 1997). Furthermore, it was thought that giving minors more command over their health care decisions might enhance their response to treatment (Adleman, Kaser-Boyd, & Taylor, 1984). As a result, many states began to accord minors limited autonomy to provide consent for treatment of sensitive and private issues, such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and drug, alcohol or mental health problems (English, 1990; Holder, 1992; Santelli et al., 1995).

Since these laws permitting adolescents to seek assistance for reproductive health, substance apply, and mental health concerns were enacted, the legal system has grappled with the competence of a minor to provide informed consent for treatment. The crux of the fence concerns the cognitive abilities of an adolescent to make decisions affecting their long-term welfare (Committee on Bioethics, 1995). Initial testify for minor competence was based on Piaget's stages of cognitive evolution positing that children every bit young as twelve years old were capable of formal operational reasoning (Grisso & Vierling, 1978). Similarly, minors every bit young as 14 years of historic period did not differ significantly from adults in their reasoning and agreement of hypothetical medical treatment data (Weithorn & Campbell, 1982) or in their judgments about hypothetical situations involving risky behaviors (Beyth-Marom, Austin, Fischhoff, Palmgren, & Jacobs-Quadrel, 1993; Quadrel, Fischhoff, & Davis, 1993). These findings bolstered the statement that minors may accept more than capacity for informed controlling than had previously been allowed (Lewis, Lewis, Lorimer, & Palmer, 1977; Melton, 1983; Poncz, 2008; Scott & Steinberg, 2009). However, one important chemical element of informed consent that has largely been ignored is the minor's competence to understand and accurately appraise the risks of not undergoing handling (Hickey, 2007).

Placing high dependence on boyish determination-making may pose problems when there is lilliputian incentive for the adolescent to seek treatment on his or her own. In contrast to almost medical and mental health problems, drug and alcohol use has firsthand positive effects that tend to overshadow the electric current and future negative consequences of use; therefore, teenagers are less probable to recognize problematic use (Cho, Hallfors, & Iritani, 2007; Stueve & O'Donnell, 2005) and to seek treatment. Furthermore, peer force per unit area to apply drugs and alcohol may mitigate any motivation an adolescent has to seek treatment (Poulin, Kiesner, Pedersen, & Dishion, 2011). Finally, boyish controlling may exist dumb past use of alcohol or drugs.

In fact, few adolescents enter drug handling of their own accordance. Parental pressure is positively associated with treatment entry (Caldeira et al., 2009) even so few referrals to adolescent drug handling are from parents (see Kirby et al. this issue). In a study of adolescent drug handling, merely x% of referrals were from family unit or the adolescent (Simmons, et al., 2008). In 2010, just virtually 16.v% of all admissions to drug treatment for youth ages 12–17 occurred by cocky-referral or referral by other individuals compared to nearly one-half (45.6%) occurring through the criminal justice system (USDHHS, 2012). These information indicate that many adolescents who need treatment for drug habit are not seeking it, leaving open the question of what part parents can accept in helping their child.

Legal requirements for minor consent vary widely by state (English, 2002; English, Bass, Boyle, & Esragh, 2010; Lallemont, Mastroianni, & Wickizer, 2009; Weisleder, 2004, 2007). Well-nigh recently, Lallemount et al. (2009) conducted a thorough review of all 50 states' laws concerning decision-making say-so regarding voluntary inpatient treatment for substance-abusing adolescents and noted that all states had applicative laws, some deferring to the determination of the parent and some to the child. Notably, the majority of the states failed to betoken what happens when a parent and child disagree about the need for treatment.

The purpose of this paper was to provide an up-to-date report examining consent and decision-making potency for boyish drug treatment and to expand on Lallemont et al. (2009) by: 1) including laws for outpatient as well as inpatient treatment and mental wellness as well as drug abuse treatment; 2) comparing the laws for inpatient and outpatient modalities to see if parental consent was more likely to exist required for inpatient settings that could remove the child from the parent's home; and 3) comparing the laws for the ii types of treatment to see if there were differences in parental and adolescent consent in mental wellness versus drug corruption treatment. Nosotros were interested in comparing laws for substance corruption and mental health treatment because historically, parents have been underutilized in their child'southward substance corruption treatment (SAMSHA, 2010a), but may be more likely to be included in mental health handling (e.g., Alkhatib, Regan, & Jackson, 2008; Tan, Passerini & Stewart, 2007) and considering nosotros have noted pregnant differences between substance abuse and mental wellness treatment with respect to other policies (Kerwin, Walker-Smith, & Kirby, 2006).

Method

Procedure

Using LexisNexis, nosotros searched for country requirements (i.e., laws, codes, rules, and regulations) regarding informed consent for both inpatient and outpatient substance abuse and mental health treatment in all l states and Washington, D.C. In identifying the state laws, we looked merely at those laws pertaining to voluntary admission for treatment. Data were collected in June, 2012.

Subsequently the state laws were located, the laws regarding consent for a minor to receive drug and mental health treatment were first coded into the following categories: Parent Consent Only (i.eastward., simply the parent could consent for the kid's treatment), Either Parent or Minor Consent (i.east., either the pocket-sized or parent could consent for treatment), Both Parent and Pocket-size Consent (i.e., both the parent and the child are required to provide consent for treatment), or Minor Consent Only (i.east., simply the small-scale could consent for handling). In addition, information regarding a specified age over which a minor could consent for handling was too included in the data if information technology was specified by the state. ² If a land specified an age cut-off for minor consent, the constabulary was classified as minor consent; however, parents must provide consent for children younger than the age cut-off. For example, if a land allowed a minor 16 years and older to consent for outpatient drug treatment, parents will demand to provide consent for treatment of children under the age of 16. It was assumed that all states allowing minors to consent for treatment would exercise then only if the minor was deemed competent to provide informed consent (i.e., not cognitively challenged).

The post-obit decision rules were utilized to categorize the laws of each state. Those laws pertaining only to emancipated minors and minors considered to exist the age of majority by virtue of their status (due east. 1000., married, parents themselves) were non categorized because these "minors" were considered to be adults according to most state laws. Similarly, nosotros excluded laws designed specifically for wards of the state. For the purposes of classification, we excluded laws pertaining to emergency situations merely when parents would non provide consent or could not be institute. Some state laws for consent to mental health or drug treatment did not specify modality (e.one thousand., used terms such every bit "mental health agency"). In these instances, the law was assumed to apply to both inpatient and outpatient treatment. Finally, in categorizing the laws, nosotros attempted to capture the reasonable essence of the law in daily exercise. In other words, we considered what would happen typically if a pocket-size presented him/herself for treatment or a parent presented him/herself to a treatment plan asking for treatment for his/her child. For example, if a state police specified that parents could petition the courtroom to involuntarily commit their kid to treatment, nosotros decided that this required extraordinary endeavor and resources; therefore, this exception was not coded as parents having right to consent for their child'southward handling.

4 types of restrictions could be placed on pocket-size or parental consent. The limitation was noted in the results for the post-obit three restrictions: 1) minor consent was allowed for treatment, but parental notification of the minor'due south access was required; 2) minors consent for drug treatment was allowed only only for observation and diagnosis or for a specified menstruum of time after which parental consent was required; and 3) minor or parent consent was immune; however, if parents requested admission for their children, both the pocket-size and parent had to consent for treatment. The fourth restriction specified that a minor could consent to treatment alone if the health care provider determined that involvement of the parents would be detrimental to handling. These laws were coded as requiring either modest or parent consent and the restriction was noted.

Applying these determination rules to country laws was difficult in some cases. To ensure that nosotros categorized the state police appropriately in every case that eluded clear interpretation and categorization, we contacted (telephone and e-mail) officials or representatives within that land'southward courtroom arrangement, experts inside state-based legal help centers, and agents within the state's department of human service'southward mental health or substance abuse sectionalization. Oftentimes, those offering guidance referred u.s.a. to other individuals in the agency with whom description was also requested. Following contact, we attempted to attain description and consensus among the majority of those contacted representing the state. Using this method, a chiselled conclusion was and then made. In the event that no constabulary could be found that specifically mentioned blazon and modality of treatment, confirmation was requested primarily through employees at university and country courtroom law libraries. If they verified that there was no specific police force, the category was coded equally "No Specific Law Found."

Information Analysis

Although we explicitly noted when no police force specific to drug or mental wellness treatment was plant, for the purposes of secondary nomenclature (described below) and data analysis, nosotros causeless that in these states the laws governing consent for medical intendance would employ, in which case we assumed parental consent only was required.

Finally, considering the purpose of the study was to examine the rights of parents, the laws were farther classified into parent consent required (i.due east., states that specified parent consent only or both parent and minor consent), parental consent sufficient (i.e., states that specified parent consent only for treatment plus those states that immune either parent or small consent), minor consent sufficient (i.east., states that specified pocket-sized consent simply plus those states that immune either parent or minor consent), and small consent required (i.e., states that specified minor consent only or both parent and minor consent). We believe these categories best reflect a continuum of parental determination-making from virtually authority to least authority. We and so used Chi Foursquare analyses to compare the prevalence of consent laws past handling modality and blazon for parent versus modest decision-making dominance.

Results

Table 1 contains each land's statutes regarding the type of decision-making authority required for adolescents to enter inpatient or outpatient drug or mental health handling. If the state specified an age at which the small-scale was capable of making this conclusion, the historic period is indicated in parenthesis in the tabular array after the type of consent required. Restrictions to minor or parental consent are indicated in the notes to the table.

Table i

Parent and Adolescent Decision-Making Authorization for Inpatient and Outpatient Drug and Mental Health Handling

State	Drug Treatment		Mental Health Handling
	Inpatient	Outpatient	Inpatient	Outpatient
Alabama	Pocket-size	Pocket-size	Minor (≥ 14)	Modest (≥ 14)
Alaska	No Specific Police	No Specific Police	No Specific Law	No Specific Law
Arizona	Either (≥12)	Either (≥12)	Parent	Parent
Arkansas	No Specific Law	No Specific Law	No Specific Law	No Specific Constabulary
California	Either (≥12)	Either (≥12)	Small-scale (≥12)	Modest (≥ 12)
Colorado	Minor	Minor	Small-scale (≥fifteen)	Minor (≥ xv)
Connecticut	Either	Either	Either(≥14)a	Minor
Delaware	Parent	Either (≥14)	Parent	Parent
DC	Minor	Modest	Parent	Minor
Florida	Either	Minor	Parent	Minor (≥ 13)
Georgia	Either (≥12) b	Minor	Parent	Either (≥ 12)
Hawaii	Pocket-size	Small	Parent	Pocket-size
Idaho	Either	Either	Either (≥14)a	Either
Illinois	Pocket-size (≥12)	Small-scale (≥12)	Either (≥ 16)a	Minor (≥ 12)
Indiana	Small	Minor	Minor	Small
Iowa	Either	Either	Minor/Bothc	Smalld
Kansas	Minor	Minor	Either (≥14)	Either (≥ 14)
Kentucky	Either	Minor	Minor (≥ 16)	Minor (≥ xvi)
Louisiana	Small	Minor	Minor	Minor
Maine	Bothb	Minor	Small-scale	Minor
Maryland	Either	Minor	Either (≥ xvi)	Either (≥ 16)
Massachusetts	Minor (≥ 12)	Small (≥ 12)	Either (≥ sixteen)a	Either (≥ xvi)
Michigan	Either (≥ 14)f	Either (≥ 14)	Either (≥ 14)	Minor (≥ xiv)
Minnesota	Minor (≥ 16)	Modest(≥ sixteen)	Small-scale (≥ sixteen)	Modest (≥ 16)
Mississippi	Parent	Minor (≥ 15)	Parent	No Specific Police force
Missouri	Either	Either	Parent	Parent
Montana	Minor	Minor	Either (≥ 16)	Either (≥ 16)
Nebraska	Either	Either	Either	Either
Nevada	Minor	Small	Parent	Parent
New Hampshire	Minor (≥ 12)	Minor (≥ 12)	Either	Either
New Jersey	Minor	Pocket-size	Parent	Parent
New United mexican states	Minor(≥ 14)	Minor (≥ 14)	Minor (≥ xiv)	Minor (≥ xiv)
New York	Eithereastward	Eitherdue east	Either (≥ sixteen)	Eitherdue east
North Carolina	Parent	Minor	Parent	Minor
Due north Dakota	Minor (≥ fourteen)	Pocket-sized (≥ fourteen)	Parent	Parent
Ohio	Minor	Minor	Parent	Pocket-size (≥ 14)
Oklahoma	Minor (≥ 16)	Minor	Small-scale (≥ xvi)	No Specific Constabulary
Oregon	Modesta	Minor (≥ 14)	Parent	Minor (≥ 14)
Pennsylvania	Either	Either	Either (≥ 14)	Either (≥ 14)
Rhode Isle	Eithereastward	Eithere	Both	Both
South Carolina	Minor (≥ 16)	Minor (≥ sixteen)	Minor (≥ 16)	Minor (≥ 16)
South Dakota	Either	Either	Both (≥ 16)	Both (≥ 16)
Tennessee	Either (≥ 16)	Either(≥ 16)	Minor (≥ 16)	Minor (≥ 16)
Texas	Either (≥ xvi)	Either (≥ 16)	Either (≥ 16)	No Specific Constabulary
Utah	Parent	Parent	NoSpecific Law	No Specific Law
Vermont	Minor (≥ 12)	Minor (≥ 12)	Minor (≥ 14)	Minor (≥ 14)
Virginia	Both (≥ fourteen)	Minor	Both (≥ 14)	Pocket-sized
Washington	Parent	Minor (≥ 13)	Small (≥ 13)	Minor (≥ xiii)
West Virginia	Minor	Small	Both (≥ 12)	Both (≥ 12)
Wisconsin	Parent	Either (≥ 12) b	Both (≥ 14)g	Both (≥ fourteen)
Wyoming	No Specific Law	No Specific Law	No Specific Constabulary	No Specific Police

Consistency in Consent Laws

Simply 18 states (35%) were consistent in consent requirements across treatment type and modality (i.e., inpatient drug, outpatient drug, inpatient mental health, outpatient mental health). In 3 of the 18 states (AK, AR, WY), the consistency was represented past no specific laws for whatsoever of the iv categories of handling. When laws specified consent requirements, in nine states merely small-scale consent was required (AL, CO, IN, LA, MN, NM, OK, SC, VT) and in v states either small-scale or parental consent was acceptable (ID, NE, NY, PA, TX). In i state (UT), parental consent was required for drug treatment, merely there were no specific laws for mental health treatment.

In 15 states (29%), there was a divergence in consent requirements across treatment type (drug abuse vs. mental health), with 7 states being more than restrictive of parental authority by specifying that only minor consent was acceptable for drug abuse handling, while allowing parental (NV, NJ, ND) or either parental or modest consent (KS, MA, MT, NH) for mental health treatment. Just 3 states (CA, IA, TN) were more restrictive of parental authority for mental health handling requiring pocket-size consent for mental health services while assuasive either parents or minors to consent to drug corruption handling. In 2 states (AZ, MO), parental consent was required for mental health treatment, simply either parents or minors could consent to drug abuse treatment. In ii states (RI, SD), both parents and minors needed to consent for mental health handling while either the parent or minor could consent to drug treatment. In 1 land (WV), modest consent was sufficient for drug corruption handling, while both parents and minors had to consent to mental wellness handling.

Only 3 states (6%) had different consent requirements beyond treatment modality (inpatient vs. outpatient). 2 states (MS, NC) required parental consent just and one state (VA) required both parental and minor consent for inpatient handling, while small-scale consent only was required for outpatient treatment; MS had no specific law for mental health outpatient treatment.

In fifteen states (29%), there was no consistent pattern in consent requirements. In 12 states, the consent requirement was consistent except in 1 category. In 8 of these 12 states (DC, HI, KY, ME, OH, OR, WA), the exception was making parent consent sufficient or required for one of the inpatient treatments (3 drug, v mental health) while simply pocket-sized consent was required for the other three settings. In the other 4 of the 12 states (CT, DE, Doc, MI), the exception was for one of the outpatient treatment settings (2 drug, 2 mental health) which allowed or required minor consent when parental consent or either parental or minor consent was specified in the other three settings. For the remaining 3 of the fifteen states (FL, GA, WI), the consent requirement was consistent beyond only two of the four treatment categories and at that place was no clear pattern. In 1 land, there was consistency across the outpatient modality (FL), in some other the consistency was inside mental health handling (WI), and in the last state (GA), inpatient drug corruption treatment and outpatient mental health handling were consequent.

Parent versus Minor Decision-making Authorization

Table 2 presents a summary of the number of states with each of the iv primary categories of controlling (i.due east., Parent Consent Just, Either Parent and Small Consent, Both Parent and Minor Consent, and Small-scale Consent Merely) as a function of the iv treatment categories. These iv categories represent a continuum of parental authorization. Parent consent simply (Parent consent required and sufficient) represents the greatest degree of authority, as it allows the parent to place their kid in treatment with or without their agreement, merely does not allow the kid to receive treatment without the parent's knowledge. The next level is either parent or small consent (Parent consent sufficient, only not required), which affords the parent the same degree of authorisation for placing their child in treatment, simply allows the child to access treatment independent of the parent. Laws requiring the consent of both the parent and child restrict the parent's power to identify their kid in treatment if the child does not consent (Parent consent required, simply insufficient). Finally pocket-size consent but places the controlling potency wholly and completely with the minor (Parent consent is not sufficient or required). Tabular array 3 presents the secondary nomenclature of these four categories into parental consent required, parental consent sufficient, small-scale consent sufficient, and minor consent required.

Table 2

Number of states with each of four types of decision-making dominance for inpatient and outpatient drug and mental health handling

Blazon of Authority	Drug Treatment		Mental Health Treatment
	Inpatient	Outpatient	Inpatient	Outpatient
Parent Consent Merely a	9	4	18	13
Either Parent or Small-scale Consent	18	xvi	13	10
Both Parent and Small-scale Consent	2	0	half dozen	iv
Minor Consent Merely	22	31	15	24
Total Number of States	51	51	52b	51

Table 3

Percent (and number) of states where parental or small consent is required or sufficient and minimum historic period for minor consent by handling type and handling modality

	Drug Abuse		Mental Health
	Inpatient	Outpatient	Inpatient	Outpatient
Parent Consent Required a	22(11)	8(4)	47(24)	33(17)
Parent Consent Sufficient b	53 (27)	39 (xx)	61 (31)	46 (23)
Small-scale Consent Sufficient c	78(40)	92 (47)	55 (28)	67 (34)
Minor Consent Required d	47(24)	61 (31)	41(21)	55(28)
Minor Consent Allowed eastward	82(42)	92(47)	67(34)	75(38)
No Age Specifiedf	62(26)	62(29)	24 (8)	36 (fourteen)
Historic period Specified chiliad	38(sixteen)	38 (18)	76 (26)	63(24)
Minimum Age ≥ 12	44 (7)	39 (7)	8(ii)	17(4)
Minimum Age ≥ 13	44 (7)	44 (8)	12(three)	25(6)
Minimum Historic period ≥ 14	69(eleven)	72 (13)	l(13)	63(xv)
Minimum Age ≥ 15	69(xi)	78 (14)	54(14)	67(16)
Minimum Age ≥ sixteen	100 (16)	100 (18)	100 (26)	100 (24)

Figure one presents a comparison of the number of states in which parent versus minor consent is required (top console) and the number of states in which parent versus minor consent is sufficient (bottom console). Examined in this style, several patterns emerge in the information. Minor consent was more frequently required for inpatient and outpatient drug abuse and outpatient mental health treatment relative to parent consent. Parent consent was more oftentimes required for mental wellness inpatient handling than pocket-sized consent. Also, parent consent was more ofttimes required for mental health treatment than for drug abuse treatment regardless of modality. Finally parental consent was more frequently required for inpatient versus outpatient treatment regardless of handling type. A chi-square analysis across the iv combinations of treatment and modality was statistically significant when parent or modest consent was required (χ² (3) = 15.5, p= 0.001).

Per centum of states with parent and modest consent required (height panel) and sufficient (bottom panel) every bit a office of type and modality of treatment (IP=Inpatient; OP=Outpatient).

State laws favored the consent of the minor as sufficient for inpatient and outpatient drug handling and outpatient mental health treatment relative to the consent of the parent. The laws were approximately evenly split between pocket-size and parent consent existence sufficient for inpatient mental health treatment. Within type of treatment, minor consent was more than frequently sufficient for outpatient versus inpatient care regardless of whether it was drug or mental health treatment. A chi-square analysis across the four combinations of treatment and modality approached statistical significance (χ² (iii) = 7.71, p= 0.082) when parent or minor consent was sufficient.

Age for Minor Consent

Tabular array 3 also depicts the minimum age specified by states for minors to consent (including minor consent merely, either parent or minor consent, and both parent and minor consent categories) for drug and mental health handling. The bulk of states (62%) did not specify a minimum age required to consent for inpatient or outpatient drug handling. In contrast, for states assuasive minor consent to mental health inpatient and outpatient handling, only 24% and 36%, respectively, failed to specify a minimum historic period. For drug treatment, sixteen (38%) states specified a minimum historic period at which a minor could consent to inpatient and 18 (38%) states specified a minimum age for outpatient drug handling, compared to 26 (76%) and 24 (63%) states for inpatient and outpatient mental health handling, respectively.

When states did specify a minimum historic period for consent for treatment, more than states immune younger minors to consent for drug treatment compared to mental health treatment. About 44% of the states that specified a minimum historic period for small-scale consent for inpatient (7 out of xvi) and/or outpatient (viii out of 18) drug treatment specified a minimum historic period of xiii years onetime or less. Conversely, for mental health treatment, of the 26 and 24 states that specified a minimum age for minor consent for mental health treatment, iii (12%) and 6 (25%) states specified a minimum historic period of thirteen years old or less for inpatient and outpatient treatment, respectively. For states specifying a minimum age for minor consent, the modal historic period for drug abuse handling regardless of modality was 12 years former while the modal age for mental health treatment was 15 and xiv years old for inpatient and outpatient treatment, respectively.

Discussion

This study extends the work of Lallemont et al. (2009) past reporting and comparison laws for both drug abuse and mental health inpatient and outpatient treatment. Our results revealed that just over one third of the states had consequent consent laws across treatment types and modalities. More states differed across treatment type than handling modality, but at that place was no consistent pattern in the way that they differed. The rationale for the differences in consent requirements between inpatient and outpatient modalities and drug corruption and mental health treatment types is not clear.

Every bit we hypothesized, when parental consent was required for a small-scale to exist admitted to either drug or mental health handling, more states required parental consent for inpatient modalities compared to outpatient modalities. Notwithstanding, across treatment type, more than twice every bit many states required parental consent for mental health handling compared to drug treatment. Also, while parental consent was more than likely to be required for inpatient handling, it was all the same infrequently required for drug abuse treatment, regardless of modality, and required in fewer than one-half of us for mental wellness treatment regardless of modality. Clearly most states exercise not require parental consent for handling of their small-scale kid. In three of the four handling categories, a greater number of states required minor consent than required parental consent. The only exception was in mental health inpatient handling where parental consent was required in 47% of the states and minor consent was required in 41%.

Fortunately, parental consent need only be sufficient for parents to request and receive assistance for their child who may need handling. Parental consent was sufficient to admit a minor to inpatient drug and mental health treatment in just over one-half of the states and in well-nigh one-half of us for outpatient mental wellness treatment; nonetheless, information technology was sufficient in simply twenty states for admission to outpatient drug handling. Country laws conspicuously favored the rights of minors to independently access drug handling compared to mental health treatment.

For those states that allowed a minor to consent for treatment, the minimum age required for this consent was unspecified for nearly 2-thirds of the states for drug treatment compared to a quarter to one-tertiary of the states for mental health treatment. When a minimum age for minor consent was specified, the modal minimum age for pocket-size consent to drug treatment was 12 years old compared to 14 or 15 years old for mental health treatment.

The rationale for why states afford more than decision-making dominance at a younger age to minors seeking drug treatment compared to mental health handling is unclear. Country laws may reflect professional person association policies asserting that adolescents should have the right to seek confidential and individual care for sensitive wellness issues (Council for Scientific Affairs, 1993; Ford, English language, & Sigman, 2004; Club for Adolescent Medicine, 1997). Alcohol and drug employ by adolescents is illegal; therefore, whatsoever breach of confidentiality may result in legal consequences for the minor. In addition, parents may punish their kid for drug employ, whereas, this is less likely to be the case with mental health bug. Perhaps this preference towards modest consent for drug treatment reflects a perception that mental wellness handling is more than like to general medical treatment than drug handling. Alternatively, these results may simply reverberate differences in education, training, and licensure betwixt mental health and addiction professionals. In a review of state laws comparison licensing requirements for drug and alcohol counselors to mental health counselors, land requirements for training and experience differed substantially for these two types of counselors (Kerwin et al., 2006). An exploration of the legislative history of each state's minor consent constabulary for drug handling revealed no consistent blueprint in the rationale for choosing one age over another age (Weisleder, 2007). Furthermore, the variations in minimum age for small-scale consent for drug handling and mental wellness handling do non appear to reverberate scientific findings regarding boyish controlling capacity. These public policy considerations are the mutual responsibility of both scientists and policymakers; scientists should seek to inform policymakers and policymakers should seek relevant empirical show when crafting laws (Meyer, 2007; Sullivan, 2008).

Allowing adolescents to access care privately and without parental consent probably removes of import barriers to care for adolescents who wish to receive help without suffering potentially negative consequences that would come with the parent'due south knowledge of the problem. This is likely a pregnant advantage for teens who are motivated to receive help; however, it appears that very few adolescents initiate substance abuse treatment of their ain accordance. In nigh cases, adolescents have to be court mandated to treatment (SAMHSA, 2010b). Drug use interferes with attention, memory and executive functioning (Thoma, et al., 2011; Witt, 2010), making it less likely that adolescents will identify and/or recognize the negative consequences of use and seek treatment independently. State laws making modest consent sufficient for handling pose no barrier for parents seeking help for their children, but laws that require small consent may present a bulwark to treatment for adolescents. More than research is needed to empathize the decision-making abilities of adolescents about seeking treatment, peculiarly when they themselves are using drugs.

When families live in a state that requires a minor to consent to treatment, what happens when these minors refuse and/or won't seek treatment? Parents may have only a few options available. They can: (a) endeavour to "forcefulness" their unwilling child into handling; however, even if they succeed in getting the child in the handling door, minors in these states would be immune legally to refuse the treatment and to discharge themselves at any point during treatment, (b) involve extended family and friends to help influence the adolescent (for a give-and-take of these strategies, (run into Kirby et al., this upshot), (c) call upon other systems (e.g., legal, religious) to help them hogtie their child into handling, (d) transport their child across state lines to a state where minor consent is not necessary, providing they have the resources, and (e) parents may surrender and promise that the problem resolves itself without too much damage to their child.

Although the legal system is involved in merely under half of adolescent handling admissions (SAMHSA, 2010b), piddling inquiry has investigated the strategy of involving other systems to compel a minor into handling. In a study exploring barriers to drug treatment, twenty% of parents whose teens were in a residential treatment program reported that they had been told past a treatment program that the child must be in the legal organization to exist admitted to treatment (Wisdom, Cavaleri, Gogel, & Nacht, 2011). The authors written report that the parents experienced "a large amount of frustration." (p. 182). "One parent shared in detail the uphill boxing she faced in finding treatment. After a psychiatrist refused to acknowledge her son to a residential treatment facility considering the son refused treatment, she resorted to legal action. Here, as well, she found significant resistance. 'I chosen the police 6 times, [and] every time they refused to take him…. They didn't want to waste material their fourth dimension.' She concluded, 'Getting him [into residential treatment] was a phenomenon.'" (p. 182). It is unclear how representative this parent'south experience is with respect to seeking help for her child; withal, there may be a variety of avenues of legal influence that could potentially be a fruitful area for hereafter research.

Another option for a parent may exist to ship their child to a land that allows parental consent simply so that the minor does not need to consent and cannot turn down treatment. In a review of The National Association for Therapeutic Schools and Programs (2012), 112 of 131 (85%) programs are in states with parent consent sufficient for either drug or mental wellness handling. Interestingly, xl of the 131 (31%) programs are located in Utah, a state in which a parent may submit a non-consenting minor for treatment if a neutral and detached fact finder determines that the minor needs treatment and the non-consenting pocket-sized volition not be discharged upon request if s/he continues to meet admission requirements (Lallemont, et al., 2009). Unfortunately, in that location are a number of noted problems with these types of programs (Friedman et al., 2006) and a lack of methodologically controlled issue studies (Scott & Duerson, 2010; Wilson & Lipsey, 2000). In add-on, the effect of this type of coercion on the parent-adolescent human relationship is unknown.

A final selection is for parents to get frustrated in the face of their child's drug use. Compared to investigating how parents might contribute to their teen's problems, relatively trivial attention has focused on how parents are affected past their teen'due south substance apply. It is possible that stress and ineffective parental coping strategies may contribute to poorer parental operation, which in turn might result in a maintenance of, or increase in, the boyish's substance use (McGillicuddy, Rychtarik, Duquette, & Morsheimer, 2001; Stice & Barrera, 1995). Furthermore, health intendance professionals may translate parental frustration and stress associated with adolescent substance utilise as lack of awareness or deprival of their child's drug use (Wisdom, et al., 2011). In summary, more research is needed on what obstacles face up parents and how best to address these obstacles. In addition, adolescents patently are not motivated to seek existing treatments. Another future expanse for inquiry is how to design and create treatment options that are effective and appealing to adolescents.

An important point that cannot be emphasized enough is that parental consent for handling should be considered independently from the boyish's right to confidentiality during handling. In other words, parental consent for treatment should exist considered separately from the adolescent's correct to confidentiality during the treatment procedure (Dyer & MacIntyre, 1992; Fortunati & Zonana, 2003). Those states that crave parents to be notified that their boyish has consented for treatment recognize the parent'south right to know what is happening with their minor child. Although these states include parents, the minor's confidentiality in the treatment process is protected. Exactly how parental notification influences minors seeking of treatment is unknown, however.

The interpretation of the results of this written report needs to be tempered by several limitations. These information reflect land statutes simply, non do in the field. Nosotros know that in that location are gaps betwixt laws on newspaper and laws in practice (Melton, 1981; Poncz, 2008). Another fruitful area for enquiry is to assess if this gap exists for controlling potency for treatment. For case, in a country in which either a parent or minor may consent for treatment, do wellness intendance professionals require a minor to consent because this consent indicates recognition of a problem and motivation to alter? Conversely, states that permit for either parental consent or small-scale consent appear to be striving towards a model of inclusiveness in which either the parent or the kid tin seek handling for an boyish's problem; notwithstanding, this state of affairs may upshot in conflict between the parent who wants handling for the small and the pocket-sized who does not recognize the trouble and/or who does not want to participate in handling. In these states, drug and mental wellness treatment programs may experience the proverbial dilemma of leading a horse to water, but non being able to make information technology drink. Another limitation may lie in the coding of the statues. State statues are complicated and are often very dumbo. It is possible that while our coding scheme simplifies classification of the various state statutes, some exceptions and nuances of a constabulary were missed. Furthermore, it is of import to annotation that we just coded laws that were specific to drug and mental health treatment. It is possible that when classifying a law every bit modest consent but, a parent would be able to consent in that state nether laws for general medical care.

Country laws reverberate the tension between protecting the right of a modest to seek confidential treatment for substance use or mental health concerns, and the right of parents to protect the health and welfare of their children equally their parental responsibilities. This tension results in circuitous state laws that specify that consent is sufficient or required from the pocket-size alone, the parent alone, either the parent or the minor, or both parent and minor. The issue addressed in this paper is not what happens when the adolescents seek treatment for themselves, but what happens when the boyish does non seek treatment and parents recognize a problem. Parents have less authorization and lose it sooner when their child needs drug abuse as compared to mental health handling. For parents who live in states that practise not allow them any authority to consent for treatment of their adolescent, their options are more limited (irrespective of cost and other logistical aspects of treatment) and the laws may sometimes work against the best interests of their child.

Acknowledgments

This research is supported in part by a grant (P50-DA027841) from National Institute on Drug Abuse. We gratefully acknowledge the aid and assist of Bianca Coleman.

Footnotes

¹For ease of presentation, drug treatment was used for drug and alcohol treatment and parent(southward) was used to represent parents and guardians.

²Specific statues are available upon asking.

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