Brief report: parent report about health care use: relationship to child's and parent's psychosocial problems.

costly, these psychosocial problems are persistent and interfere with overall functioning (e.g., Costello, Edelbrook, et al., 1988; Costello & Shugart, 1992; Goldberg, Roghmann, McInerny, & Burke, 1984; Horwitz, Leaf, Leventhal, Forsyth, & Speechley, 1992; Starfield et al., 1984). Primary care physicians are often required to make referrals in order for children to receive specialty mental health care services. However, they often fail to identify children with psychosocial problems (Costello, Burns, et al., 1988). Many methods have been developed to aid physicians in evaluating the psychosocial status of a child (e.g., Pediatric Symptom Checklist; Jellinek, Murphy, & Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 5, 1999, pp. 435–439