{"title":"Knowing.","authors":"Amy Basilious","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this narrative, the author describes how she hears the story of someone who is the victim of abuse, but the author could not have known about the vicitm's abuse and many fears. These fears include fear of others' judgment, fear of screams, fear of abandonment, and fear of being with others. In these stories, the author has heard the unspoken burdens of others around her. This particular victim has taught the author compassion, empathy, and patience when she interacts with her patients, colleagues, and friends. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 3","pages":"469-470"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481766","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}
Jessica J Reed, Frances E Fachilla, Alton N Verbist, Hannah G McClellan, Christina A Gillim, Shane T W Kuhlman
{"title":"Building a culture of workforce wellness using implementation science-informed strategies: A qualitative content analysis.","authors":"Jessica J Reed, Frances E Fachilla, Alton N Verbist, Hannah G McClellan, Christina A Gillim, Shane T W Kuhlman","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Successfully addressing burnout in health and human services settings is a topic of growing interest and impact in the field. Implementation science gives us strategies to build organizational readiness to create a culture of workforce wellness. This study used strategies for identifying and preparing wellness champions and building feedback loops to begin to build a culture of workforce wellness. The primary aim of this study was to assess perspectives on establishing feedback loops across all levels of the organizational hierarchy.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study took place in a community mental health organization that provides services across four different states. Champions in each state were identified and connected with leaders and teams. The champions supported the engagement of leaders and the design of feedback loops. Champions remained engaged throughout the process of assessing needs and sharing workforce wellness data. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on data collected during meetings that were intended to create organizational practice to policy feedback loops.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Staff across all levels of the organizational hierarchy shared feedback and participated in facilitated reflective discussion. Participants offered several suggestions for addressing burnout. Across all participants, workplace connections were perceived as a protective factor against burnout.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This implementation science strategy to help combat burnout is an effective and feasible way to include frontline staff voices and build connection and trust between leaders and staff in health and human services settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 3","pages":"380-385"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481762","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":"Promoting successful health care transitions for young people aging out of foster care.","authors":"James Kaferly, Liza M Creel","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000927","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Improving adolescent to adult health care transitions (HCTs) would benefit all young people in the United States but has particular importance for the more than 120,000 adolescents and young adults (AYA) placed in foster care. Leveraging clinical guidelines and evidence-based interventions, HCT efforts inclusive of and specific to AYA placed in foster care can be strengthened through greater collaboration between child welfare, health care, and other AYA-serving systems. This Health Policy Brief advances the importance of structured Health Care Transition services for adolescents and young adults placed in foster care. Additionally, it highlights opportunities for health care providers, youth-serving systems, and health policy stakeholders to collaborate with child-welfare involved young people in order to prioritize evidence-based health care transition interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 3","pages":"464-468"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481771","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":"\"Integrated behavioral health plus\": The best of the worlds of collaborative care management, primary care behavioral health, and primary care.","authors":"Gene A Kallenberg, William J Sieber","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000885","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fsh0000885","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Discussions comparing the components and virtues of models of integrated behavioral health (IBH), that is, collaborative care management and primary care behavioral health, have been ongoing. In this conceptual article, we recommend shifting the focus to a broader set of components we have found essential to serve the needs of our patients, and hopefully the broader aims of dissemination and implementation of IBH.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We detail our 20-year experience including the personnel, program components, challenges, successes, and plans for the future that will meet our patients' behavioral health needs and serve primary care.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We compare our \"IBH Plus\" approach using the central tenets of primary care known as the \"six Cs\" (6Cs) to two dominant models, illustrating differences and similarities among them. The \"6Cs\" are first contact/accessibility, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, context-based, and accountability. We detail how each of these \"6Cs\" guides the structure and functioning of IBH Plus in the team-based patient-centered medical home setting.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>We believe IBH Plus more clearly relates to and supports the rest of the primary care transformation movement while integrating components of the most popular models of IBH and may support greater implementation of IBH. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":" ","pages":"454-463"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140308012","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":"Born in a tube by the Guadalupe River.","authors":"Woods Nash","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this poem, the author describes how her mother gave birth to her, alone, in the Guadalupe River on her prom night. Her mother let her rest in an inner tube. Decades later, the author remembers what her mother had to do do-how she rationed gas, scissored coupons, sent her to school in stolen shoes. Then came the gutting cancer, and the author was left to carry her mother. She gave the author the grit to wake each day. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 3","pages":"473-474"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481755","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":"Centering family voice during a public health crisis: Challenge and opportunity for health collaborations and community systems of care.","authors":"Angeline K Spain, Angela Garza, Julie S McCrae","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000865","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fsh0000865","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Evidence is lacking about how to integrate family and community voice into systems of care. This is particularly relevant in public health crises when reducing barriers to health care and resources is critical for everyone, but especially community members who typically experience more barriers to care. Addressing this gap, this study investigated the voice strategies used by systems of care to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We conducted semi-structured interviews in three U.S. counties with agency leaders representing healthcare, public health, and early childhood partners in local systems of care (<i>n</i> = 15) and resource navigators who worked with families (<i>n</i> = 4).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that systems of care were better able to identify and respond to family priorities when they used diverse voice strategies, implemented among multiple agencies involved and at multiple time points. Family and community voice helped uncover blind spots in the crisis response, facilitating reaching more individuals in need. Flexibility in safety net service policies and protocols was critical to each organization in the system of care.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Systems of care that develop a multi-dimensional approach to voice strategies that can be readily mobilized in a public health crisis will be more apt to meet emerging needs. Questions remain about whether power sharing that occurred in the context of crisis translates into reform that builds out from family priorities. Common issues to meeting family needs that could be addressed prior to a crisis included outdated resource lists, confusing application processes, poorly translated materials, and insufficient broadband access. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":" ","pages":"392-404"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138500336","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":"Warm night in July.","authors":"Nicole M Else-Quest","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000876","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From the perspective of a mother with young children, this free verse poem describes one experience of miscarriage, including physical and psychological trauma as well as confusion and shock. Reflecting upon the mother's need for care in the context of her own caregiving responsibilities, the poem weaves her words with the words of her health care providers. It also engages with the language commonly used to describe or label fetuses, living, or dead, and how that language can shape the psychological experience of pregnancy and pregnancy loss. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 3","pages":"475-477"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481776","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}
Christine B Mirzaian, Olga Solomon, Helen Setaghiyan, Sharon Hudson, Fran Goldfarb, Guadalupe Lorena Eaton, Rita Vasquez, Lucia Babb, Larry Yin
{"title":"Enhancing access to early intervention by including parent navigators with lived experience in a pediatric medical home.","authors":"Christine B Mirzaian, Olga Solomon, Helen Setaghiyan, Sharon Hudson, Fran Goldfarb, Guadalupe Lorena Eaton, Rita Vasquez, Lucia Babb, Larry Yin","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000864","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fsh0000864","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>A growing number of children have developmental delay (DD) or intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), and early intervention (EI) can improve their developmental trajectory. However, access to EI is fraught with disparities. This article describes the development of Parent Navigator (PN) program that placed three parents with lived experience in a pediatric medical home to serve as community health workers to provide support to families with a child with DD or IDD to access EI and other needed resources.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We used a mixed-methods approach to program evaluation that included (a) documenting the number of referrals to the EI programs made by the PNs; (b) documenting referral outcomes; (c) conducting a physician satisfaction survey; and (d) interviewing the PNs to reflect on their experiences assisting families.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>From July 2018 to September 2020, our PNs facilitated 623 referrals to EI due to significant developmental concerns found during a pediatric visit. Rates of successful connection to EI were 71%. Survey results indicated that pediatricians felt the PNs were a valuable part of the healthcare team and helped reduce their own job stress. The PNs provided multiple examples of their methods of addressing barriers to EI access by relating to families with their own lived experience and by \"meeting families where they are at.\"</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The PN program might be a successful approach to addressing disparities in EI access for families in need by using an innovative method of employing individuals with lived experience in the pediatric primary care setting. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":" ","pages":"405-416"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138500337","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}
Steven L Sayers, Hayley C Fivecoat, Shahrzad Mavandadi, Theresa M Schmitz, Pamela Jackson-Malik
{"title":"The Family Climate Questionnaire: A general measure of autonomy support from family members.","authors":"Steven L Sayers, Hayley C Fivecoat, Shahrzad Mavandadi, Theresa M Schmitz, Pamela Jackson-Malik","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000916","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The current study examines the psychometric characteristics of the Family Climate Questionnaire (FCQ), which was intended to measure the degree of autonomy-support among family members for a respondent with health concerns.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The sample included military veterans (N = 350), a portion of whom had congestive heart failure (N = 86) or diabetes (N = 77), and a portion who were referred from primary care for behavioral health concerns (N = 187). Overall, 92.6% of the participants were male, and 56.7% were Black or African American and 40.6% were Caucasian.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings highly supported the factor structure, internal consistency, and construct validity of the Autonomy Support subscale. In addition, there was high support for factorial invariance across subsamples of veterans with chronic medical problems compared to those referred from primary care. The findings for an additional subscale developed for this study, Coercion, were less supportive, with insufficient convergence in factor structure and relatively poorer internal consistency.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The FCQ Autonomy Support measure appears to have potential as a useful measure of a family environment that supports autonomy for health among individuals with both medical and mental health conditions, and it is a flexible measure that can be used with a range of family member types. The FCQ Coercion measure received less consistent empirical support and will require additional development and testing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 3","pages":"427-437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481774","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}
Randl Dent, Julia Strasser, Lauren Muñoz, Margaret Ziemann, Alys Barton, Becka DeSmidt, Lauren Enright, Patricia Pittman, Candice Chen
{"title":"Lessons learned from the Health Resources and Services Administration health workforce well-being grantees.","authors":"Randl Dent, Julia Strasser, Lauren Muñoz, Margaret Ziemann, Alys Barton, Becka DeSmidt, Lauren Enright, Patricia Pittman, Candice Chen","doi":"10.1037/fsh0000911","DOIUrl":"10.1037/fsh0000911","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Burnout and moral injury are among the most pressing issues facing healthcare and public safety today. In 2021, Congress provided $120 million through the American Rescue Plan Act for 44 Health Resources and Services Administration grants to implement evidence-informed strategies to address burnout and improve mental health among the health workforce. This article examines facilitators and barriers to implementation and reported impact of grantees' interventions.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Key informant interviews (n = 39) and surveys (n = 36) with grantees were conducted between May and August 2023 and qualitatively analyzed using inductive and deductive approaches.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study found grantees were adapting their program modality, timing, and content to meet the needs of their workforce. Many grantees were increasingly focused on training/engaging leadership, establishing structures for worker engagement, and allowing worker voice and priorities to guide operational changes. Though many grantees could not yet report program impact, those who could provide early data documented decreases in staff turnover, burnout, and moral distress. A common challenge was ongoing resource constraints, including staff and leadership turnover.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Findings suggest health and public safety organizations continued to struggle with staffing post-COVID, increasing the challenges of implementing their programs to improve burnout and well-being. However, just 18 months into their activities, grantees reported their efforts were leading to changes in organizations, culture, and the experiences of individuals. Key lessons include the importance of engaging workers, building trust, and developing intentional communication, evaluation, and feedback strategies to advance organizational-level efforts to improve worker and learner well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":55612,"journal":{"name":"Families Systems & Health","volume":"42 3","pages":"317-332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481767","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}