"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
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May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Obesity disproportionately impacts inner-city minority children. The Family Assessment of Initial Risk (FLAIR) intervention was tested in three primary care centers in the Bronx, New York. This article presents parents' focus group responses evaluating FLAIR.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article describes three interventions that successfully reduced racial/ethnic health care disparities in children: one increased breastfeeding in a Navajo community, one decreased behaviors that can transmit HIV in African-American girls, and one increased insurance rates in Latino children. Learnings and pitfalls from these studies are also described.
March 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The effect of medical interventions on the reduction of mental retardation (MR) in the United States between 1950 and 2000 was examined in the present study. The general prevalence of MR was compared to the prevalence of case-specific MR for seven m ...
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Katherine J. Rosich and Janet R. Hankin outline the contents of 11 articles from this special supplement to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. The findings are the result of 50 years of research into the social dimensions of health and health care in the U.S.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The theory behind and current status of treatment for psychotic disorders demonstrates that both family psychoeducation and psychoeducational multifamily groups have shown promising outcomes.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention of Psychosis Program (EDIPPP) is a large clinical trial funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to test whether Family-Aided Community Treatment (FACT) can delay or prevent the onset of psychosis in at-risk young people.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The authors use a review of theoretical, conceptual and empirical background for research on early identification and intervention for improved outcomes in psychiatric disorders to argue that existing evidence justifies early identification and prevention of psychosis as routine clinical practice.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
An introduction to a special issue of Adolescent Psychiatry describes the relevance of its focus on topics relative to prodromal symptoms or to individuals at clinical high risk for a first psychotic episode.
April 1, 2012 | Journal Article
PIER offers a new model for community health education that, in contrast to traditional mental health education, strengthens capacity for proactive engagement of key stakeholders in youth mental health.
October 18, 2011 | Journal Article
Educators and health promotion proponents can partner to achieve health and educational goals simultaneously.