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Community Treatment for Youth: Evidence-Based Interventions for Severe Emotional
and Behavioral Disorders (Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery With
Vulnerable Populations)
by Barbara J. Burns, Kimberly Hoagwood
Book Description:
This outstanding textbook presents innovative interventions for youth with
severe emotional and behavioral disorders. Community Treatment for Youth is
designed to fill a gap between the knowledge base and clinical practice through
its presentation of theory, practice parameters, training requirements, and
research evidence. Featuring community-based and state-of-the-art services for
youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, this
volume describes each intervention in depth, along with the supporting evidence
for its utility. Most chapters present a single intervention as an alternative
to institutional care. Shared characteristics of these interventions include
delivery of services in the community (homes, schools, and neighborhoods)
provided largely by parents and paraprofessional staff. The interventions are
appropriate to use in any of the child human services sectors and have been
developed in the field with real-world child and family clients. In addition,
they offer a reduced cost in comparison to institutional care. Several chapters
address diagnostic-specific psychosocial and psychopharmacological treatments,
which are likely to be provided as adjunctive treatment in a clinical setting.
Designed to update professionals in the field about effective services,
Community Treatment for Youth will serve as a resource for academics,
policymakers, practitioners, consumers, and researchers. |
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Providing Mental Health Services to Youth Where They Are: School and Community
Based Approaches
by Harinder S. Ghuman, Mark D. Weist,
Richard M. Sarles,
Book description:
Barriers to community mental health centers (such as stigma, waiting lists)
prevent youth from receiving necessary services. Providing Mental Health
Services to Youth Where They Are, identifies the reform that is needed in
children's mental health service. As the issues of systems of mental health care
have received increased attention, so has the recognition of the benefits of
providing services to youth where they are: that is, in natural settings, such
as home or school. Principles to include in systems of mental health care for
youth are as equally important as actually reaching the youth: involvement of
families, school staff, community leaders, and clergy. The development of
programs are matched to the developmental, cultural, and other needs of youth in
a community so they mesh with existing services. This book describes how these
principles play out in school-, home-, and community-based mental health
programs for youth. |
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Hanging Out: Community-Based After-School Programs for Children
by Ruth Garner
Book description:
There has been a huge increase in government and foundation funding for
after-school programs, but there is very little published research on processes
and outcomes (what is available is single-program analysis, often in the form of
reports to funding agencies). This collection provides data on the operation of
many programs and takes community contexts into account, showing what children
actually like and how programs can attract and retain them. |
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Integrated Mental Health Care : A Comprehensive, Community-Based
Approach (Studies in Social and Community Psychiatry)
by Ian R. H. Falloon, Grainne Fadden, Peter J. Tyrer
Book description:
This challenging book describes a new approach to the provision of mental health
service to a community. Taking as their theoretical basis the
vulnerability-stress model of mental illness, the authors place their findings
and recommendations in the wider context of mental health care provision, and
draw widely on international research in this field. They insist on a rigorous
approach to the provision and evaluation of care, and use telling case studies
to reveal the benefits as well as some of the difficulties that may be
experienced. The practical, problem-solving and cost effective approach
described in this book will be of the greatest interest to health care
professionals in whatever treatment setting they may be working. |
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Community-Based Psychotherapy with Young People: Evidence and Innovation in
Practice
by Geoff Baruch, Geoffrey Baruch
Synopsis:
In the last 50 years, emotional and behavioral problems among young people have
increased dramatically, yet only a minority is receiving treatment. Many young
people who would benefit from psychotherapy are reluctant to be treated in
traditional clinical settings, and it is doubtful whether these settings are the
most effective way to deal with these patients.
Community-Based Psychotherapy with Young People offers a fresh perspective on
working with difficult groups of patients. It addresses the difficulties in
engaging with and treating young people with mental health problems, describing
approaches and techniques for working with them, and taking into account the
developmental, psychiatric, psychological, and biological issues of those in
need of help. Part 1 covers the likely problems and difficulties encountered in
such work, addressing issues such as engaging young men who are depressed and
hard to reach. Part 2 describes services for high priority groups of young
people, including those who are disabled or from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Part 3 describes how the outcome of the work is evaluated and considers the
impact present developments in child and adolescent mental health may have on
community-based organizations.
This book will appeal to professionals working in more traditional settings who
want to explore different ways of working with young patients, including
psychotherapists, counselors, clinical psychologists, social workers, and mental
health service planners. |
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The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of
Care : The New Community Psychiatry
by Andres J. Pumariega (Editor), Nancy C. Winters (Editor)
Book Description:
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care is a groundbreaking
volume that presents the latest thinking in the field of child and adolescent
psychiatry written by a stellar panel of child and adolescent psychiatrists. The
Handbook shows that the best way to help at-risk children is not in isolated
doctor and patient treatment rooms but with community-based systems of care
(SOC) that incorporate an interagency integration of services based on a
client-centered and family empowering orientation. This important resource
offers psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, pediatricians,
nurses, educators, lawyers and judges, politicians, child advocates, parents,
and families a guide to this dynamic new theory and practice. Comprehensive in
scope, The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care includes vital
information on a wide variety of topics including
Developmental and cognitive psychology in systems of care (SOCs)
Social sciences, neurobiology, and prevention in SOC
The best way to use psychopharmacology
Family- and community-based interventions
Culturally diverse populations
Youth in juvenile justice and child welfare, school-based services
Partnerships among parents, consumers, and clinicians |
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Full-Service Schools : A Revolution in Health and
Social Services for Children, Youth, and Families (Jossey Bass Education Series)
by Joy G. Dryfoos
Book description
Full-Service Schools describes the movement to create an array of
integrated support services in schools. It examines the declining welfare of
many American families and prescribes solutions for the problems of increased
sex, drugs, violence, and stress among youth. |
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