{"title":"Looking at School Health and School Reform Policy Through the Lens of Addressing Barriers to Learning","authors":"H. Adelman, L. Adelman","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0302_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0302_4","url":null,"abstract":"Viewing policy, research, and practice through the lens of addressing barriers to student learning produces an analysis that differs markedly from prevailing discussions of how to enhance student well-being and achievement. This lens highlights the full range of barriers to learning and helps clarify the full implications of education's commitment to ensure all students succeed at school. By adopting such a broad perspective, those concerned with school health can embed their agenda into a comprehensive, multifaceted continuum of programs and services that school reformers increasingly will come to understand is a primary and essential component of enabling effective learning and teaching.","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"37 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115843460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. A. Tashman, M. Weist, O. Acosta, N. L. Bickham, M. Grady, L. Nabors, R. Waxman
{"title":"Toward the Integration of Prevention Research and Expanded School Mental Health Programs","authors":"N. A. Tashman, M. Weist, O. Acosta, N. L. Bickham, M. Grady, L. Nabors, R. Waxman","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0302_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0302_3","url":null,"abstract":"Expanded school mental health (ESMH) programs provide comprehensive mental health care (assessment, treatment, case management) to youth in special and regular education in schools. These programs are growing progressively throughout the United States related to increasing disenchantment with traditional forms of mental health service delivery to youth (e.g., providing care at \"centers\" away from neighborhoods) and growing recognition of the advantages of providing services directly within schools (e.g., outreach to youth with internalizing disturbances). However, for the most part, prevention within ESMH programs remains underdeveloped. The integration of prevention research and ESMH offers considerable promise to ongoing efforts to reform and improve education and mental health care for youth. This article reviews barriers to this integration and strategies to overcome them.","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133495255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Pruett, L. Davidson, T. Mcmahon, Nadia L. Ward, E. Griffith
{"title":"Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Urban Youth: Applying Lessons From the Community Mental Health Movement","authors":"M. Pruett, L. Davidson, T. Mcmahon, Nadia L. Ward, E. Griffith","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0302_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0302_1","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the serious problems faced by urban minority youth, services provided to such youth remain fragmented and uncoordinated. In this article we examine lessons learned from the community mental health movement in addressing the needs of a similarly disenfranchised population, individuals with psychiatric disabilities. A model alternative school intervention program is presented that draws on strategies developed within a community mental health center paradigm to provide a comprehensive model of service delivery to youth based on prevention strategies, a positive youth development approach, and culturally appropriate interventions derived in collaboration with the population served. Despite the lessons learned and progress made in servicing this multiproblem population, further work is needed to achieve full integration of school interventions and their home communities.","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121493231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychosocial Service Needs of Children of Parents With Kidney Disease","authors":"E. Soliday, Suzanne R. Smith","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0302_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0302_2","url":null,"abstract":"To provide information on specific difficulties faced by, and service needs of, families with a parent affected by kidney disease, we conducted a needs analysis with dialysis and transplant patients (N = 123) whose children were under 18 years old. Because treatment (dialysis vs. transplant) has not been explored as it relates to service needs, we examined effects by treatment type. Significantly more difficulties in providing for children's needs were found for low-income families. Compared to transplant patients, dialysis patients reported significantly more child care-related difficulties. Significantly more dialysis patients reported difficulty supporting their children financially, and significantly more transplant patients reported difficulties paying for medications. Findings are discussed as they relate to specialized supports for dialysis and transplant patient families, including policies aimed at improving transplant donor recruitment and access to adequate children's health care.","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134550462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interprofessional Collaboration in Children's Services: Toward a Theoretical Framework","authors":"M. Walsh, M. Brabeck, Kimberly A. S. Howard","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0204_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0204_1","url":null,"abstract":"Because the complex problems of society do not come in discipline-shaped blocks, the best practice in services for children and families increasingly requires genuine collaboration across professions. Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of interprofessional collaboration, its practice has been limited by numerous conceptual and pragmatic obstacles. The lack of an adequate theory to ground and guide collaborative practice has constituted a critical barrier. After reviewing the current status of interprofessional collaboration as well as barriers to its implementation, we propose a theoretical framework for interprofessional collaboration that draws on the fundamental principles of human development and provides guidelines for practice.","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125115813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle Shasha, J. Lavigne, J. Lyons, J. Pongracic, D. Martini
{"title":"Mental Health and Service Use Among Children With Asthma: Results From a Tertiary Care Center","authors":"Michelle Shasha, J. Lavigne, J. Lyons, J. Pongracic, D. Martini","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0204_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0204_3","url":null,"abstract":"Examination of the mental health needs and service use of children visiting a tertiary allergy clinic indicated that 30% of the sample met criteria on the parent form of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach, 1991) for significant emotional or behavioral problems. The frequency of mental health and medical service use varied, however, with parents' perceptions of the severity of their child's behavior problem. Just over 1/2 of the children identified by the CBCL alone received mental health services in the preceding year, whereas nearly two-thirds of the children whose parents also perceived their behavior as problematic received mental health services. Furthermore, children identified by both the CBCL and parent severity ratings were more likely to utilize emergency and inpatient services than were children without psychopathology or children identified by the CBCL alone. Mental health treatment did not offset this increase in medical use. The scientific, clinical, and policy implications of thes...","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116661158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empowering Youth to End Relationship Violence","authors":"Carolyn Grasley, D. Wolfe, C. Wekerle","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0204_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0204_2","url":null,"abstract":"Violence and abuse in teen dating relationships are now recognized as pervasive and far-reaching problems that cannot be managed by detecting and treating only those who have already begun these patterns. Such problems may need to be addressed outside the confines of traditional clinical and educational models. An alternate model conceptualizes educational and experiential strategies as stand-alone or afterschool curriculum delivered in partnership with community services specializing in violence-related work, such as Child Protective Services, battered women's shelters, male batterer groups, and youth support agencies. We believe that early to middle adolescence is a crucial time for establishing a pattern of healthy, nonviolent relationships with intimate partners that carries forward to future family members. This article describes the Youth Relationship Project (YRP), which has a community-based curriculum designed to enhance youths' social and relationship skills through prosocial action. A section o...","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"199 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124454410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refugee youth at risk: A quest for rational policy.","authors":"A. Sivan, L. Koch, C. Baier, M. Adiga","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0203_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0203_2","url":null,"abstract":"Despite dramatic growth in youth gang activity among Southeast Asian immigrants, there is little research on gang recruitment and activity among refugee youth from other countries. The authors, who work with Bosnian, Guatemalan, and Haitian youth, reviewed whatever research there was and conducted focus groups with refugee youth to gain insight into possible prevention strategies. Our review presents several perspectives-economic/political, community/educational, family, and developmental-and also considers the impact of the media, chronic exposure to violence, and specific issues related to immigrant/refugee status. Themes and quotations from the focus groups are presented as they mirror many of these research perspectives and offer increased insight into the issues. We review prevention and intervention programs and offer recommendations for political, social, and practical interventions.","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"324 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123169825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early intervention foster care: A model for preventing risk in young children who have been maltreated.","authors":"P. Fisher, B. H. Ellis, P. Chamberlain","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0203_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0203_3","url":null,"abstract":"Treatment foster care (TFC) allows troubled youth to remain in the community and live in a family setting. Prior studies suggest that TFC may be an effective alternative to more restrictive interventions. However, most TFC programs have been designed to treat elementary school age youth and adolescents. At a time when the foster care population is burgeoning, and the proportion of very young children in the system is increasing, there is a need for TFC programs specifically designed to meet the needs of maltreated preschoolers. In this article we describe an early intervention foster care program that targets 3 areas: behavior problems, emotional regulation, and developmental delays. The theoretical model for the program is also described, along with recommendations for the implementation of similar programs.","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128084389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quality Service Provision in Children's Mental Health Care","authors":"L. Nabors, M. Weist, E. Holden, N. A. Tashman","doi":"10.1207/S15326918CS0202_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326918CS0202_1","url":null,"abstract":"Accountability data are important in this era of streamlined funding for children's mental health services. Documenting high-quality treatment for children and families has become an important facet of program evaluation. In this article, literature concerning quality of care in children's mental health services is reviewed. Information on quality assurance and improvement (QNQI) activities and indicators, measurement issues, barriers, research priorities, and future directions for research are discussed. These activities provide important accountability data that can be used to improve mental health services for children and families. Evaluators need to ensure that knowledge gained from QNQI programs is disseminated to policymakers, the clinical practice and research communities, and the public.","PeriodicalId":105976,"journal":{"name":"Children's Services","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114928041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}