Innovative approaches for difficult-to-treat populations

Services for Children, Adolescents, and Their Families, and Innovative services for elderly populations, including effective community-based treatments for serious juvenile offenders, and strategies for reforming state mental health systems.

Abstract

Services for Children, Adolescents, and Their Families. Ecological trajectories in child mental health. Family preservation services for families with children who have mental health problems. Community- and neighborhood-based services for youth. Effective community-based treatments for serious juvenile offenders. Approaches to intervention with chronically neglecting families. Interventions for adolescents who abuse substances. The east Baltimore mental health partnership. Vocational initiatives for transition-age youths with severe mental illness. Approaches for Severely Ill Adult Populations. From the hospital to the community: the great American paradigm shift. Treating substance abuse in patients with severe mental illness. Family psychoeducation: basic concepts and innovative applications. Rural assertive community treatment: taking mental health services on the road. Adult foster care: the forgotten alternative? Mobile psychiatric emergency medical services. Optimal psychiatric inpatient care: from comprehensive to efficient treatment. Innovative services for elderly populations. Enhancing vocational outcomes for persons with psychiatric disabilities: a new paradigm. Policy Issues. Why don't the knuckleheads use common sense? Downsizing state psychiatric hospitals. Medicaid financing. Statewide program dissemination in Michigan. Strategies for reforming state mental health systems. An EPA for children: empowerment, prevention, and advocacy at work. Ethical issues in research on child and adolescent mental disorders: implications for a science of scientific ethics. Behavioral therapy research: a conceptualization of a process. Index.