The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN) Chartbook 2009-2010, was released by The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration in June 2013. This chartbook presents the major findings of the NS-CSHCN on the national level, stratifying each indicator by selected sociodemographic variables such as age, race/ethnicity, […]
Treatment
Rural Children Experience Different Rates of Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment
Using data on children ages 5-17 from the 2002-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), this study examines 2 research questions: Do patterns of children’s mental health diagnosis and service use (e.g., office visits and psychotropic medications) differ by rural-urban residence? What is the effect of income and insurance type on use of mental health services? […]
African-Americans, Latinos Receive Less Adequate Mental Health Care than Whites
Blacks and Latinos receive less adequate mental health care than Whites, finds a study titled Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Treatment across Episodes of Mental Health Care. “We found that Blacks and Latinos [remain] in care, including using outpatient services and filling psychotropic drugs, for a shorter time than whites,” said lead study author, Benjamin Le Cook, […]
Community and Treatment Engagement for Depressed African American Youth: The AAKOMA FLOA Pilot
This manuscript focuses on the recruitment efforts and pilot testing of a culturally tailored motivational interviewing intervention associated with the AAKOMA Project, a 2-phase treatment engagement intervention trial for depressed African American adolescents and families. The research team used strategic community engagement as reported in other research derived from AAKOMA. For the pilot study, the […]
Engaging Depressed African American Adolescents in Treatment: Lessons From The AAKOMA Project
The authors describe and illustrate means of engaging depressed African American adolescents in treatment. Twenty-eight youth participated in focus groups or individual interviews. Using grounded theory and transcript based analysis, they derived 5 themes describing African American adolescents’ experience of depression and suggested mechanisms for improving African American youth treatment engagement. Practitioners can educate African […]
Family and Children’s Place School-Based Therapy Services
NNEDLearn 2013 Participant: Family and Children’s Place Description: The program utilizes evidence-based therapy models to address behavioral problems such as difficulty focusing, explosive anger outbursts, intrusive sadness, difficulty relating to and interacting with peers, self-esteem issues, bullying, trauma (domestic violence, child abuse), changes in household (parent has new partner, new siblings, foster care, adoption, reunification […]