The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions released an updated guide that features an array of resources to support health care providers in serving veterans, service members and their families. The second portion of the guide features resources that can be shared directly with veterans and family members so they can learn how to access an array […]
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Opportunities to Promote Children’s Behavioral Health: Health Care Reform and Beyond
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, has several provisions that could greatly improve the behavioral health of children and adolescents in the United States. It requires that many insurance plans cover mental health and substance use disorder services, rehabilitative services to help support people with behavioral […]
Substance Abuse Treatment: Addressing the Specific Needs of Women
This guide equips clinicians and other professional care providers with practical information for use in treating women with substance abuse disorders. Addresses risk factors, substance abuse and mental illness screening, patient assessment, treatment, and relapse. Population of focus: Women Link to resource: Substance Abuse Treatment: Addressing the Specific Needs of Women, KAP Keys for Clinicians Based […]
Beyond Translation: Promoting a New National Standard for Equity in Health Materials Translated from English
As of 2011, 25.3 million people in the United States had limited English proficiency (LEP). This number includes people born outside and inside the United States (Zong and Batalova, 2015). Spanish is the most spoken language in the United States after English, with increases in other non-English languages occurring as the United States continues to […]
Psychiatric Disorders in Youth After Detention
This bulletin examines the findings of the Northwestern Juvenile Project—a large-scale longitudinal study of youth detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago, IL. The authors discuss the findings related to the prevalence and persistence of psychiatric disorders in youth after detention. Key findings include: Five years after the first interview, more […]
What Good Looks Like in Psychological Services for Children, Young People and their Families
A Review that aids understanding of what causes children to develop mental health problems and what can be done to was launched at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society’s Faculty for Children, Young People and their Families (CYPF) in Birmingham. ‘What Good Looks Like in Psychological Services for Children, Young People and their Families’ […]