{"title":"It's time to stop using \"stepchild\" as a pejorative term in science.","authors":"Todd M Jensen","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000839","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite their ubiquity, stepfamilies generally hold a stigmatized status. The scientific community at large has not been immune to the influence of stepfamily stigmatization. Misusing the term \"stepchild\" in science is unnecessary on several fronts. \"Stepchild\" is often intended to denote neglect, oversight, or mistreatment. Scholars should consider using more direct and precise language, especially considering that scientific writing benefits from clarity, parsimony, and precision. In any case, it's time to stop using \"stepchild\" as a pejorative term. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"127-129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140866859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren S Wakschlag, Allison J Carroll, Susan Friedland, John Walkup, Jillian L Wiggins, Nivedita Mohanty, Ellen Papacek, Sacha Bridi, Ryan Carroll, David Drelicharz, Zeba Hasan, Tara Kotagal, Matthew M Davis, Justin D Smith
{"title":"Making it \"EASI\" for pediatricians to determine when toddler tantrums are \"more than the terrible twos\": Proof-of-concept for primary care screening with the Multidimensional Assessment Profiles-Early Assessment Screener for Irritability (MAPS-EASI).","authors":"Lauren S Wakschlag, Allison J Carroll, Susan Friedland, John Walkup, Jillian L Wiggins, Nivedita Mohanty, Ellen Papacek, Sacha Bridi, Ryan Carroll, David Drelicharz, Zeba Hasan, Tara Kotagal, Matthew M Davis, Justin D Smith","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000868","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Up to 20% of youth have impairing mental health problems as early as age 3. Early identification and intervention of mental health risks in pediatric primary care could mitigate this crisis via prevention prior to disease onset. The purpose of this study was to establish the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a brief transdiagnostic screening instrument in pediatric primary care for irritability and corollary impairment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Five pediatric clinicians in a Midwest clinic implemented the Multidimensional Assessment Profiles-Early Assessment Screener of Irritability (MAPS-EASI) for toddlers (24-30 months) and their families. MAPS-EASI (psychometrically derived from the well-validated MAPS-Scales) includes six items (scored 0-5) about symptoms (e.g., tantrums, grumpy mood), context, and frequency and two items (scored 0-3) assessed impairment. Positive screens (MAPS-EASI ≥ 5 plus impairment ≥ 2) were referred to an evidence-based parenting intervention. We assessed reach and outcomes of MAPS-EASI screening. Follow-up interviews with clinicians assessed perspectives on irritability screening and MAPS-EASI implementation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 201 eligible families, 100 (49.8%) completed the screener for a 24- or 30-month well-child visit. Mean MAPS-EASI scores were 5.8 (SD = 3.2), mean impairment scores were 0.9 (SD = 0.9), and 24 (24.0%) screened positive. Clinicians indicated that irritability screening for toddlers was aligned with their prevention-oriented, developmentally based practice. MAPS-EASI had face validity and increased clinician decision-making confidence. Finally, clinicians identified barriers and facilitators to large-scale implementation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>MAPS-EASI proved to be feasible and acceptable in pediatric primary care. Further tailoring will be needed as the MAPS-EASI processes are scaled out to new contexts and populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"34-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140868803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Deeper cuts\": A 55-word story.","authors":"Jennifer Hartmark-Hill","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000816","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health professionals spend their careers in the expert care of patients experiencing difficult and chronic illnesses. However, there is no equivalent in professional training for personal, lived experiences as patients or loved ones of patients, both of which can serve as unforgettably humanizing teachers for building empathy, compassion, and perspective-taking skills. This 55-word story is a reflection on a memorable moment in one such experience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"133"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140873696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addressing mental health, earlier in pediatric primary care: Introduction to the special section.","authors":"Ashley M Butler, Sara M George","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000887","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fsh0000887","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leading national health organizations have declared pediatric mental health an urgent public health issue. Pediatric primary care is an ideal setting to improve mental health in young children; however, various existing barriers limit the effective identification of social-emotional risk among toddlers. This special section of Families, Systems, & Health includes four articles that identify multilevel barriers and facilitators to population-level early childhood mental health screening, identification, and referral and describe implementation strategies that may be used to improve pediatric mental health. In the first article, authors describe clinicians' concerns regarding the social-emotional screening of young children. In the second article, authors highlight the potential for a transdiagnostic screening tool for assessing toddler irritability that may support clinical decision making. In the third article, authors use information gathered from clinicians to generate a logic model that can guide the implementation of screening and referral for toddlers with elevated social-emotional risk. In the fourth article, authors explore caregivers' perceptions of other factors, such as effectiveness, demand, and cost, of the proposed intervention, that may impact their service engagement. Together, these articles outline a plan for facilitating early childhood mental health screening, identification, and referral that has the potential for reducing the prevalence of pediatric mental health diagnoses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140868797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The \"in between\".","authors":"Jennie David, Samantha R Paglinco","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000819","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fsh0000819","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When the authors were 12 and 14 years old, their worlds shifted suddenly without warning or consent, and bifurcated our lives into \"a before\" and \"an after.\" They were both diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and found themselves in an \"in between\" space-young but not healthy, sick but not dying, treatments but not cures, intestines swollen and bleeding but appearing fine on the outside, in every sense the definition: an invisible illness. Their own chronic illness experiences helped to shape our pursuit of careers in healthcare, with one of them choosing pediatric IBD psychology (Jennie David) and the other choosing pediatric gastroenterology (Samantha R. Paglinco). Being patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) created a new \"in between\" space to occupy and explore. They continue on in these \"in between\" spaces and choose to bring all of themselves-as patients and HCPs-as theiy work with pediatric IBD patients in their endless pursuit of caring for young people as full, wonderful, complex, flawed, and worthy humans (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"135-136"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140869381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who won?","authors":"Srirama Srikanth","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000844","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This poem describes the ugly face of misinformation and lies-spewing bile as COVID shook us and humanity came undone. Vaccines were rejected and lockdowns were broken. We barely withstood. Who won? No one. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140872198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne E Kazak, Michele Scialla, Janet A Deatrick, Lamia P Barakat
{"title":"Pediatric psychosocial preventative health model: Achieving equitable psychosocial care for children and families.","authors":"Anne E Kazak, Michele Scialla, Janet A Deatrick, Lamia P Barakat","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000856","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fsh0000856","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The Pediatric Psychosocial Preventative Health Model (PPPHM) is a three-tier model of family psychosocial risk used to guide intervention approaches in pediatric healthcare settings. Screening all families to determine levels of risk supports equitable care. We review evidence from papers using the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT), a brief caregiver-report measure of family psychosocial risk with scores that map to the PPPHM, to characterize the distribution of risk. We predict that across study samples the distribution of risk on the PPPHM will be approximately 60% universal (low), 30% targeted (moderate), and 10% clinical (high).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We conducted a scoping review searching PubMed, MEDLINE, Emcare, and PsycInfo for articles that reported PPPHM data using the PAT.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Forty-seven samples from 43 papers were included, reporting on patients with 17 conditions. PPPHM scores were highly consistent with median percentages of 55% universal, 34% targeted, and 11% clinical. There is evidence of higher levels of risk for samples using the Spanish version of the PAT, from weight management programs and with families who have children with autism spectrum disorder.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The data demonstrate consistent patterns of psychosocial risk distributions on the PPPHM and support implementation of universal family psychosocial risk screening, followed by delivery of personalized care based on level of risk. Screening all families promotes health equity in pediatric health care settings by normalizing the importance of understanding psychosocial risk and resiliencies and assuring family input in the delivery of integrated psychosocial care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":" ","pages":"76-89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138447207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Handbook of Positive Youth Development: Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Global Contexts.","authors":"Shanu Shukla","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000828","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reviews the book, <i>Handbook of Positive Youth Development: Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Global Contexts</i> edited by Radosveta Dimitrova and Nora Wiium (2021). This volume deals with both the applications and interventions of positive youth development (PYD) in the context of families and other systems in global contexts. Additionally, it advances empirical and theoretical knowledge in PYD, refinement of methodological issues, and measurement and integration of PYD-related knowledge with policy, research, and practice. This book will interest a broad spectrum of readers, including social scientists, students, professionals, policymakers, and practitioners from various disciplines. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"130-132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140869509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemplating on the end of integrated care-part II: Living the questions to foster adaptability.","authors":"Deepu George, Parinda Khatri","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000879","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article extends the use of the ecocycle planning framework to describe challenges ahead for the integrated care and Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA). The authors make the case that to remain agile and adaptable, there are contextual, ecological, and moral challenges that integrated care and CFHA should keep in the forefront as they navigate the future of an inequitable health care system that is morphing at a rapid pace. These influences include but are not limited to challenges of social determinants of health, artificial intelligence, generational differences in technology among older and younger populations, the moral issue of poverty, challenges to retain an integrated care workforce, and rethinking development of evidence-based supported treatments for integrated care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"145-150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140853661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew M Davis, Marie E Heffernan, Lucy A Bilaver, Lauren S Wakschlag, Neil Jordan, Justin D Smith
{"title":"Potential parental determinants of the pace of evidence-based practice change in children's mental health care.","authors":"Matthew M Davis, Marie E Heffernan, Lucy A Bilaver, Lauren S Wakschlag, Neil Jordan, Justin D Smith","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000878","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Strength of evidence is key to advancing children's mental health care but may be inadequate for driving practice change. The Designing for Accelerated Translation (DART) framework proposes a multifaceted approach: pace of implementation as a function of evidence of effectiveness, demand for the intervention, sum of risks, and costs. To inform empirical applications of DART, we solicited caregiver preferences on key elements.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In March-April 2022, we fielded a population-representative online survey in Illinois households (caregivers N = 1,326) with ≥1 child <8 years old. Six hypothetical scenarios based on the DART framework were used to elucidate caregivers' preferences on a 0-10 scale (0 = never; 10 = as soon as possible) for pace of implementation of a family-based program to address mental health concerns.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Caregivers' pace preference scores varied significantly for each scenario. The highest mean score (7.28, 95% confidence interval [95% CI: 7.06, 7.50]) was for a scenario in which the child's provider thinks the program would be helpful (effectiveness) and the caregiver believes the program is needed (demand). In contrast, the lowest mean score (5.13, 95% CI [4.91, 5.36]) was for a scenario in which online information implies the program would be helpful (effectiveness) and the parent is concerned about the program's financial costs (cost). Caregivers' pace preference scores did not vary consistently by sociodemographic factors.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this empirical exploration of the DART framework, factors such as demand, cost, and risk, in combination with evidence of effectiveness, may influence caregivers' preferred pace of implementation for children's mental health interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"68-75"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140857089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}