Task Force Report on Innovative Models of Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and Their Families
Task Force Report on Innovative Models of Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and Their Families

Author: Scott W. Henggeler

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1995-04

Total Pages: 72

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Task Force members were selected for their widely respected research and clinical expertise pertaining to a particular child service system -- mental health, education, juvenile justice, social welfare, and primary care -- or for their longstanding leadership in the reform of mental health services for children. These carefully chosen professionals set out to accomplish three goals: * to examine the state of mental health services for children and adolescents across the major child service systems, * to identify effective or promising models of treatment and service delivery to better meet the mental health needs of youth, and * to denote key barriers to the dissemination of such treatment and service delivery models. Divided into three sections, this report catalogs their findings. The first paper summarizes and synthesizes the key systems-level and clinical-level changes advocated within the report. The next set of articles examines innovative approaches to mental health treatment and service delivery within the major child service systems, with conclusions based on empirical research and the informed guidance of experts. The final set identifies major barriers to the dissemination of innovative models and recommends strategies for overcoming these barriers. In its entirety, the report is intended to serve as a state-of-the-art document setting forth the principles upon which the reform of children's mental health services should be based.

Dangerous Adolescents, Model Adolescents
Dangerous Adolescents, Model Adolescents

Author: Roger J.R. Levesque

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-27

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0306475405

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Teachers make a difference. As someone who grew up in one of the po- est and rural areas of a poor state and ended up attending elite graduate and professional schools, I have much to credit my public school teachers. My teachers sure struggled much to teach an amazingly wide variety of students from different backgrounds, abilities, and hopes. Given that re- ity, which undoubtedly repeats itself across the United States and globe, one would think that I should be quite hesitant to criticize a system that produces countless grateful students and productive citizens. I agree. The pages that follow surely can be perceived as yet another attack on already much maligned schools that do produce impressive outcomes despite their limited resources, increased obligations, and the sustained barrage of attacks from competing interest groups. Some may even view the text as an affront to the inalienable rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit. Others surely could understand the analysis as another assault on our decentralized legal and school systems that should retain the right to balance the needs of communities, parents, schools, and students. I clearly did not intend, and do not see the ultimate result, as yet another diatribe on the manner teachers, parents and communities treat students.

Handbook of School Mental Health
Handbook of School Mental Health

Author: Mark D. Weist

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-10-23

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0387733132

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Turn to this book for practical guidance in attending not only to routine mental health needs of students, but also in responding quickly and effectively to traumatic events. The authors discuss how to build and enhance collaborative approaches among the many stakeholders. You’ll learn how to ensure that best evidence-based practices are used in all systems of care. Next, the handbook introduces strength-based approaches to assessment in schools. Finally, the authors discuss the latest strategies to help you prevent and manage crises while addressing the unique ethical, cultural, and legal challenges of school mental health.

Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health
Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health

Author: Elissa P. Benedek

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 2009-10-20

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 1585629014

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When care of younger patients raises thorny legal questions, you need answers you can trust: that's why this book belongs on every clinician's reference shelf. Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health is a timely and authoritative source that covers issues ranging from child custody to litigation concerns as it walks clinicians through the often-confusing field of depositions and courtroom testimony. The book expands on the 2002 volume Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry winner of the 2003 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award, to meet pressing twenty-first-century concerns, from telepsychiatry to the Internet, while continuing to cover basic issues, such as forensic evaluation, psychological screening, and the interviewing of children for suspected sexual abuse, that are important to both new and experienced practitioners. Many of its chapters have been entirely rewritten by new authors to provide fresh insight into such topics as child custody; juvenile law; abuse, neglect, and permanent wardship cases; transcultural, transracial, and gay/lesbian parenting and adoption; and the reliability and suggestibility of children's statements. It also includes significant material not found in the previous volume: Two chapters on special education offer an introduction to screening instruments and help practitioners determine a child's potential need for special education programs and services. A chapter on cultural competence helps readers improve the accuracy and responsiveness of forensic evaluations and minimize the chance of an unjust outcome resulting from misguided expert opinion. The section on youth violence features three new chapters -- Taxonomy and Neurobiology of Aggression, Prevention of School Violence, and Juvenile Stalkers -- plus a newly written chapter on assessment of violence risk, offering guidance on how to confront problems such as bullying and initiate effective family interventions. A chapter on psychiatric malpractice and professional liability addresses these legal concerns with an eye toward cases involving minors. A chapter on psychological autopsy covers evaluation of the circumstances surrounding pediatric suicides, describing various types of equivocal deaths and discussing legal issues such as admissibility of the autopsy in court. A newly written chapter on the Internet expands the previous book's focus on child pornography to help practitioners deal with issues ranging from online threats to emotional and legal consequences of interactions in cyberspace. This is a valuable reference not only for practitioners in psychiatry and the mental health field but also for attorneys and judges. It opens up a field that may be too often avoided and helps professionals make their way through legal thickets with confidence.

Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents

Author: Jan N. Hughes

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001-01-11

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0190284269

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This handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of the key elements which should be part of any successful program tailored to the needs of children with diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders. The overall goal of the book is to provide an overview of the psychological services available to children and adolescents in school and community settings. The book is divided into five parts: "Framing the Issues," "Delivering Psychological Services in Diverse Settings," "Preventive Interventions," "Treatments with Specific Populations," and "System-Level Consultation." Settings," "Preventive Interventions,"

Mental Health Services and Sectors of Care
Mental Health Services and Sectors of Care

Author: Enola Knisley Proctor

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780789007605

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Mental Health Services and Sectors of Care recognizes the gaps between mental health care and the need for these services and addresses the challenges of mental health service delivery from the areas of specialty mental health, general medical physicians, human services, and involuntary self-help. This book investigates if these areas ensure adequate mental health care and gives evidence to support the fact that mental health care can burden nonspecialty care, particularly the medical and social service sectors. From Mental Health Services and Sectors of Care, researchers, social workers, and physicians will discover essential suggestions and information that will help them understand the growing need for mental health care, why people in need are ignored, and how to better help individuals get the services they need.

Handbook of Prevention Science
Handbook of Prevention Science

Author: Beth Doll

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1135239630

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"Prevention research has traditionally focused on preventive interventions tied to specific disorders, e.g., substance abuse, conduct disorders, or criminality. This produced "silos" of isolated knowledge about the prevention of individual disorders but not about interventions that work across disorders. This handbook is the first to comprehensively describe current research and practice in mental health prevention programs that is organized around comprehensive prevention systems that reach across all disorders and all institutions within a community. Throughout the book preventive interventions are seen as a necessary component of effective mental health programs, not as a replacement for therapeutic interventions"--Provided by publisher.

Advances in Clinical Child Psychology
Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

Author: Thomas H. Ollendick

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 147579035X

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This nineteenth volume of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology continues our tradition of examining a broad range of topics and issues that charac terizes the continually evolving field of clinical child psychology. Over the years, the series has served to identify important, exciting, and timely new developments in the field and to provide scholarly and in-depth reviews of current thought and practices. The present volume is no exception. In the opening chapter, Sue Campbell explores developmental path ways associated with serious behavior problems in preschool children. Specifically, she notes that about half of preschool children identified with aggression and problems of impulse control persist in their deviance across development. The other half do not. What accounts for these differ ent developmental outcomes? Campbell invokes developmental and fam ily influences as possible sources of these differential outcomes and, in doing so, describes aspects of her own programmatic research program that has greatly enriched our understanding of this complex topic. In a similar vein, Sara Mattis and Tom Ollendick undertake a develop mental analysis of panic in children and adolescents in Chapter 2. In recent years, separation anxiety and/ or experiences in separation from attach ment figures in childhood have been hypothesized as playing a critical role in the development of panic. This chapter presents relevant findings in the areas of childhood temperament and attachment, in addition to experi ences of separation, that might predispose a child to development of panic.

Implementation of Prevention Programs
Implementation of Prevention Programs

Author: Joseph E. Zins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1135487065

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This is Volume 11, Issue 1 2000 of 'Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation' and this special issue journal looks at the implementation of prevention programs. This special issue represents several years of joint efforts between the Collaborative to Advance Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) of the American Psychological Association. It includes articles on: supporting prevention as an integral aspect of school improvement; discussion of a theory of change approach; issues related to program diffusion that those working in rural communities face; problems that may be associated with full-service schools and integrated service delivery systems; ideas that can guide consultants in implementing programs in partnership with other stakeholders. and concludes with an article of implementing, and evaluating prevention programs.

Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment
Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment

Author: Steven I Pfeiffer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1317837258

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As residential treatment centers and psychiatric hospitals are increasingly asked to document their effectiveness, it is essential for mental health care providers to demonstrate the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the services they provide. Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment helps health care providers demonstrate that their planned treatment is necessary and active rather than simply custodial. A practitioner’s guide to conducting treatment outcome assessment projects, this innovative book presents readers with historical perspectives, current issues, and practical suggestions for implementing an outcome assessment project.Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment guides psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, and social program administrators in addressing which therapeutic components contribute to the goals and objectives of their programs and which may require modification, radical revision, or even elimination. It helps residential treatment centers and psychiatric treatment facilities document treatment successes and better understand which factors (within the client, family, environment, treatment setting, or combinations therein) predict successful outcome. This objective data empowers readers to influence government and industry, enhance public awareness of the needs of severely disturbed children and youth, and validate the usefulness of intensive psychiatric treatment.Unlike other books on treatment outcome, Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment tells readers how to determine clinically significant improvement and not simply statistically significant change. It gives practical, detailed, proven advice on how to carry out studies that will benefit residential treatment centers and the psychiatric and mental health fields. Contributors provide tools to validate/demonstrate that psychiatric and mental health treatments are effective. They offer insight into: planning a treatment outcome project recognizing ethical, practical, methodological, logistical, and clinical considerations in implementing a treatment outcome project selecting instruments to assess treatment outcome and measuring success comparing different outcome measuresHealth care providers must have accurate information about treatment outcomes to demonstrate that specific services are beneficial, cost-effective, and well-received by the client. Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment helps readers evaluate the impact a treatment program has on a client’s clinical status and psychosocial and educational functioning, making it possible to provide an objective yardstick for the payer’s evaluation of the quality of care provided.Psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, and social program administrators will find Outcome Assessment in Residential Treatment an essential guide to evaluating and understanding the relative effects of specific interventions or procedures on the quality and effectiveness of their services. They will use this information to make appropriate changes which guarantee that they best meet their clients’mental health care needs.