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Amone-P'Olak, Kennedy; Ormel, Johan; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Reijneveld, Sijmen A.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Burger, Huibert – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: To investigate associations between different indices of family socioeconomic position (SEP) and the use of specialty mental health services (SMHS) and whether the associations exist after adjusting for severity of mental problems. Method: Using data from a large longitudinal study of adolescents (N = 2,149; mean age = 13.6 years [SD =…
Descriptors: Health Services, Family Income, Mental Disorders, Mental Health Programs
Moriarity, Marlene Therese – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to discover how coach training experts define coaching and what they would identify to be the essential components of a coach training program for mental health professionals. Methods. A panel of nine experts, through an iterative Delphi process of responding to three rounds of questionnaires, provided…
Descriptors: Expertise, Delphi Technique, Mental Health Workers, Mental Health
Rajan, Sonika – New Horizons in Education, 2009
Background: Isabella Thoburn College at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India has initiated Service Learning Program for its students through 4 issue based centers. One of the centers AIDS Awareness Center for Counseling, Education, and Training (AACCET) is in the field of HIV/AIDS. It follows 6 pronged approach to achieve its objectives and one of the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Labor Force Development
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Whaley, Arthur L.; Rodriguez, Reymundo; Alexander, Laurel A. – Evaluation Review, 2006
Reliance on subjective grant proposal review methods leads private philanthropies to underfund mental health programs, even when foundations have mental health focuses. This article describes a private mental health foundation's efforts to increase the objectivity of its proposal review process by developing a reliable, valid proposal rating form.…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Grants, Predictive Validity, Mental Health Programs
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Watson, Michael S. – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2006
Newborn screening is considered a highly successful public health program that has resulted in the reduction of mortality, mental retardation, and other serious disabilities in thousands of children since the introduction of screening for phenylketonuria (PKU) in the 1960s. Programs are based in state public health departments such that each state…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Public Health, Child Health, Genetics
National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2011
This volume presents 64 abstracts of keynote and parallel paper presentations of the Irish National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning's (NAIRTL) conference on the theme of flexible learning. The Flexible Learning conference was a joint initiative by NAIRTL and the Learning Innovation Network. The keynote presentations can…
Descriptors: Open Education, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Educational Technology