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Mental health problems among child welfare clients living at home
- Author:
- IVERSON Anette Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 13(4), October 2007, pp.387-399.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The great majority of children receiving intervention from child welfare and protection services (CWS) in Norway live at home. The purpose of this study was to assess mental health problems among these children. Data stem from a population-based study, the Bergen child study, conducted in 2006. Of a sample consisting of 4,162 children in the fifth to seventh grades, 82 children were CWS clients who lived at home. Compared with their peers, the CWS children had significantly higher scores on emotional problems, hyperactivity, conduct problems, peer problems, and total difficulties (child and parent reports on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). The relationship between being a CWS client and total difficulties remained significant when socio-demographic variables were controlled for. Even though the results indicate that child welfare clients have more contact with child and adolescent mental health service than earlier assumed, the results emphasise the need for strong collaboration between CWS and mental health services and the need for CWS to include other types of interventions in addition to financial support.
Trends in child welfare's focus on children's mental health and services from 1980–2004
- Authors:
- LEATHERS Sonya J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 31(4), April 2009, pp.445-450.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This study examined how one of the oldest and most widely distributed child welfare practice journals addressed children's mental health issues over a 25-year period. The content of 478 articles was coded. Logistic regression findings indicate that mental health issues were discussed less frequently over the first half of the period examined, and then more frequently over the last decade. Residential treatment was discussed less frequently over time, but other community-based alternatives to residential treatment were rarely discussed at any point, so that overall the content related to treatment of mental health issues decreased as discussion of residential treatment decreased. These findings suggest that although the child welfare literature has recently focused more on children's mental health, dissemination of specific concepts from the mental health to the child welfare literature does not naturally occur over time. Efforts targeted at dissemination of effective community-based mental health interventions for foster children may be needed to support this process.
Development and implementation of a child welfare workforce strategy to build a trauma-informed system of support for foster care
- Authors:
- KERNS Suzanne E.U., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Maltreatment, 21(2), 2016, pp.135-146.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Effective strategies that increase the extent to which child welfare professionals engage in trauma-informed case planning are needed. This study evaluated two approaches to increase trauma symptom identification and use of screening results to inform case planning. The first study evaluated the impact of training on trauma-informed screening tools for 44 child welfare professionals who screen all children upon placement into foster care. The second study evaluated a two-stage approach to training child welfare workers on case planning for children’s mental health. Participants included (a) 71 newly hired child welfare professionals who received a 3-hr training and (b) 55 child welfare professionals who participated in a full-day training. Results from the first study indicate that training effectively increased knowledge and skills in administering screening tools, though there was variability in comfort with screening. In the second study, participants self-reported significant gains in their competency in identifying mental health needs (including traumatic stress) and linking children with evidence-based services. These findings provide preliminary evidence for the viability of this approach to increase the extent to which child welfare professionals are trauma informed, aware of symptoms, and able to link children and youth with effective services designed to meet their specific needs. (Publisher abstract)
The role of specialty mental health care in predicting child welfare and juvenile justice out-of-home placements
- Authors:
- GLISSON Charles, GREEN Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 16(5), 2006, pp.480-490.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This longitudinal, prospective study examines the role of specialty mental health care as provided by community-based, usual-care practice settings in predicting out-of-home placements among children served by a child welfare and juvenile justice system. The mental health needs of 1,249 children from 22 counties in Tennessee were assessed when the children were referred for child welfare and juvenile justice, in-home, case management services. The outpatient specialty mental health care received by the children in the 6-month period following the referral was recorded using the Service Assessment for Children and Adolescents and reimbursement records of TennCare. Children were then followed for 1.5 years to identify those who were subsequently placed in out-of-home care. A majority of the children needed specialty mental health care, but most of these children did not receive it. This is important because their need was the best predictor of subsequent out-of-home placement. The odds of an out-of-home placement in the follow-up period were reduced by 36% to 40% for those children who received specialty mental health care. The authors conclude that improved systematic screening for mental health problems and access to specialty mental health care for children referred for in-home child welfare and juvenile justice case management services are promising strategies for reducing out-of-home placements.
Emergency department handbook: children and adolescents with mental health problems
- Editors:
- KAPLAN Tony, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- RCPsych Publications
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 193p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This handbook covers everything a practitioner needs to know about dealing with children and adolescents who present in an emergency department with mental health problems. It provides an easily accessible framework of knowledge on child and adolescent mental health, with comprehensive, easy-to follow guidance. The book includes contributions from professionals across a range of disciplines: paediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, emergency medicine, and social care. The authors clarify the roles and responsibilities of every professional involved in the care of young patients and their families in a very vulnerable and potentially frightening situation. The subjects covered include: understanding child and adolescent mental health problems; their social and developmental contexts; the management of common mental health problems in this age group; carrying out balanced risk assessments; liaison with social services and the role of other agencies; the legal context; confidentiality and child protection; and diversity issues.
Treatment family foster care: its history and current role in the foster care continuum
- Authors:
- DORE Martha Morrison, MULLIN Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 87(4), October 2006, pp.475-482.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This article reviews the historical development in the United States of treatment family foster care as an alternative to the psychiatric hospitalization or long-term residential treatment of children and youth with serious emotional and behavioural disorders. Treatment family foster care has developed in three discrete systems of care: juvenile justice, child welfare, and mental health. The authors examine the relative contribution of each of these systems to its development, its current role in the provision of services to children with emotional and behavioural challenges, and the evidence-base for this form of care.
Working together for healthy young minds: a practitioner's workbook
- Author:
- WALKER Steven
- Publisher:
- Russell House
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 152p.
- Place of publication:
- Lyme Regis
This workbook is intended for staff, trainers, educators, managers and planners in child protection, fostering and adoption, family support, youth work, counselling, education, youth justice, probation, primary care, paediatric nursing, and child and adolescent mental health services. Twenty four activities, a number of photocopiable sections, and advice and guidance are designed to stimulate reflective capacity and offer you resources to bring to bear on the difficulties faced by your clients or service users. The workbook contributes to the understanding and assessment of the mental health needs and problems of children, adolescents and young people.
Whose baby is it anyway? Developing a joined-up service involving child and adult teams working in a mental health trust
- Authors:
- BRITTEN Clive, CARDWELL Amynta
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 26(4), Winter 2002, pp.76-83.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes how clinicians from a London-based child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS), in partnership with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), developed a joined-up service with colleagues in the local adult mental health teams in a London Hospital. The service aimed to raise awareness of the potential risk factors posed to children being cared for by an adult with a mental health problem. The article includes a number of short case examples.
Myths and practices: a national survey of the use of experts in child care proceedings
- Authors:
- BROPHY Julia, WALE Christopher J., BATES Phil
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 67p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study looking at the use of experts in care proceedings. Includes chapters on: the guardian ad litem; the use of experts inc are proceedings following the Children Act 1989; child and adolescent mental health services; cases containing expert evidence; and improving case management.