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Improving the emotional and behavioural health of looked after children and young people (LACYP): research summary 2
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE AND OUTCOMES IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICES
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This summary provides an overview of the key messages from a research review into what works in improving the emotional and behavioural health of looked after children and young people. The study focused on interventions for which the evidence based was most developed, including enhanced foster care, multi-systemic therapy and mentoring.
Extended day treatment: a comprehensive model of after school behavioral health services for youth
- Authors:
- VANDERPLOEG Jeffrey J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 38(1), February 2009, pp.5-18.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Extended day treatment (EDT) is an innovative intermediate-level service for children and adolescents with serious emotional and behavioural disorders delivered during the after school hours. This paper describes the core components of the EDT model of care within the context of state-wide systems of care, including its core service components, levels of care, focus on evidence-based practices, workforce composition and staff training, and data collection and reporting mechanisms. Recommendations are provided for state-wide implementation, followed by discussion of model development as an approach to systems reform for treating children and youth with emotional and behavioural disorders.
Catching them early
- Author:
- LAWTON-SMITH Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, February 2007, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
In 2005 the King's Fund undertook a selective review of projects in London supporting the emotional well-being of children of primary school age (5-11). The review looked at the key factors that made the best projects successful, to draw out lessons that could be disseminated more widely. The review included a selected review of the literature; a questionnaire inviting submissions from projects; case studies involving visits to projects and interviews with staff; and focus groups with children. This article summarises the findings and highlights the services and gaps.
If you're happy and you know it
- Author:
- DAVIS Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 5.7.01, 2001, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Anxiety about the mental health of our children is growing. Looks at how nursing intervention in schools can help to tackle the problem at an early stage.
Early intervention and prevention of psychopathology: the potential role of affect
- Author:
- HOLINGER Paul C.
- Journal article citation:
- Clinical Social Work Journal, 28(1), Spring 2000, pp.23-41.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
This article attempts to integrate early intervention and prevention concepts with various aspects of affect theory. First, early intervention and prevention of psychopathology in high-risk infants and children are discussed. Second, affect theory and affective interactions between infants and caregivers are presented. Third, an effort is made to integrate affect theory with concepts of prevention, with a focus on the potential role of affect theory to further inform early intervention and prevention. Fourth, a variety of related clinical, theoretical, and research issues are reviewed.
Outcomes for youth with severe emotional disturbance: a repeated measures longitudinal study of a wraparound approach of service delivery in systems of care
- Author:
- PAINTER Kirstin
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 41(4), August 2012, pp.407-425.
- Publisher:
- Springer
‘Systems of care’ is a family-centred, strengths-based service delivery model for treating youth experiencing a serious emotional disturbance (SED). Wraparound is the most common method of service delivery as a way to adhere to systems of care philosophy. This study evaluated outcomes for children aged 5 to 18 experiencing serious emotional disturbances. It evaluated the following hypotheses. Youths diagnosed with a SED participating in wraparound services will experience improved mental health symptoms, and improved behavioural and emotional strengths, and caregivers of youths diagnosed with a serious emotional disturbance participating in wraparound services will experience decreased levels of caregiver strain. Participants were evaluated at intake and every 6 months up to 24 months. Findings revealed statistical and clinical levels of improvement in behavioural and emotional strengths, mental health symptoms, and caregiver stress by the 6-month data collection point that was sustained through 24-months. Participants rated themselves as having fewer problems than the ratings given by caregivers at intake. The findings were favourable for using a wraparound service delivery model for youths experiencing a SED.
Improving the emotional and behavioural health of looked-after children and young people (LACYP): research review 2
- Authors:
- DICKSON Kelly, et al
- Publisher:
- Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 116p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
On the basis of a systematic review and analysis of key data this review aimed to draw out 'what works?' messages on improving the emotional and behavioural health of looked after children. The review focused on the interventions of enhanced foster care, multi-systemic therapy and mentoring. It looked at the views of looked after children and young people on what they felt constituted emotional and behavioural health. It examined the accessibility, acceptability and effectiveness of enhanced foster care, multi-systemic therapy and mentoring. The third research question was to find out what was known about the contribution made to improve emotional behavioural of looked after children and young people by the attitudes, skills and abilities of foster, residential and kinship carers and birth families and interventions to support this contribution. The review's main findings and conclusions on each of these review questions are summarised in the final chapter.
What works for children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours?
- Author:
- HACKETT Simon
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 149p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
Seeks to review strategies, interventions and approaches with children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviours.The book proposes a more consolidated, research-informed approach. It reviews both research findings and effective intervention strategies with adolescents who have sexually abused, pre-adolescent children with sexual behaviour problems, and families of children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours. It emphasises the need for supportive and empathic interventions which are developmentally sensitive. Bringing together messages of current literature, the resource seeks to enhance professional approaches to harmful sexual behaviours.
Positive Connections: a programme for children who have a parent with a mental illness
- Authors:
- OREL Nancy A., GROVES Patricia A., SHANNON Leona
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Social Work, 8(2), May 2003, pp.113-122.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Mental health professionals working with parents who suffer from a mental illness often overlook the children within the family. Children whose parents are mentally ill face numerous obstacles to their own emotional development and these children are at higher risk for developing mental illnesses than other children. These risks can be decreased if protective or positive interventions are available for the children. This article will describe the development and implementation of Positive Connections, an effective intervention programme specifically designed for children whose parents have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. The effectiveness of this programme has been evaluated using both qualitative and quantitative research strategies, and the results are presented.
The dynamics of interagency collaboration: how linkages develop for child welfare and juvenile justice sectors in a system of care demonstration
- Authors:
- RIVARD Jeanne C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Service Research, 25(3), 1999, pp.61-82.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describes the results of an secondary analysis of interorganisational network data collected in an evaluation of a system level of intervention, designed to integrate service delivery across multiple sectors serving children with serious emotional disturbances in the USA. Data measuring the extent of interorganisational resource exchange were analysed to investigate changes in patterns of interagency collaboration involving child welfare and juvenile justice sectors. Results found a pattern of increasing resource exchanges over time, and although modest demonstrated incremental growth in cooperative interorganisational relationships.