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Identifying Essential Components of School-Linked Mental Health Services for Refugee and Immigrant Children: A Comparative Case Study
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McNeely, Clea A.; Sprecher, Katharine; Bates-Fredi, Denise; Price, Olga Acosta; Allen, Chenoa D. – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: Foreign-born children rarely use traditional school mental health services. Comprehensive programs that combine mental health services with academic, economic, and socioemotional supports reach more foreign-born children and improve well-being. However, little practical guidance exists regarding how to best combine these diverse…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Immigrants
Does My Program Really Make a Difference? Program Evaluation Utilizing Aggregate Single-Subject Data
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Burns, Catherine E. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
In the current climate of increasing fiscal and clinical accountability, information is required about overall program effectiveness using clinical data. These requests present a challenge for programs utilizing single-subject data due to the use of highly individualized behavior plans and behavioral monitoring. Subsequently, the diversity of the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Research Design
Theory Z Child Variance.
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Peterson, Reece L. – Behavioral Disorders, 1982
The 1975 predictions made by William Rhodes concerning the mental health system are critiqued. It is suggested that Rhodes' predictions represent a utopian view and that he underestimated both the power of conservative social stability and the social reality on which the stability is based. (SEW)
Descriptors: Classification, Emotional Disturbances, Futures (of Society), Human Services
Reactions to Certain of Rhodes' Predictions.
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Morse, William C. – Behavioral Disorders, 1982
Three of William Rhodes' 1975 predictions about the mental health system are discussed. It is advocated that caretakers invest more extensive and intensive interpersonal time. In addition, the dangers of classifying children are considered. (SEW)
Descriptors: Classification, Emotional Disturbances, Futures (of Society), Human Services
The Antithesist Vision of William Rhodes.
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Wood, Frank H. – Behavioral Disorders, 1982
Perspectives concerning William Rhodes' philosophy and his 1975 predictions about the mental health system are offered. Rhodes characterized the traditional mental health system as one that suppresses individuality in the interests of social control. On the other hand, in innovative progressional institutions, power is shared by providers with…
Descriptors: Classification, Emotional Disturbances, Futures (of Society), Human Services
Describing the Population of Adolescents Served in Systems of Care.
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Liao, Qinghong; Manteuffel, Brigitte; Paulic, Courtney; Sondheimer, Diane – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2001
Cluster analysis was conducted to examine clinical characteristics of 1,961 boys and 1,320 girls (ages 10-19) with serious emotional disturbances entering systems of care funded by the Center for Mental Health Services. Combining functional and behavioral characteristics of participants indicate that symptom measures alone could not adequately…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis
The Future.
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Rhodes, William C. – Behavioral Disorders, 1982
William Rhodes reviews 1975 predictions about the future development of the mental health system, along with his current (1982) opinions about the predictions. (SEW)
Descriptors: Classification, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Emotional Disturbances, Futures (of Society)
Adolescent Mental Health: Selected Materials from the NCEMCH Reference Collection, April 1997.
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National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Arlington, VA. – 1997
Items in this annotated bibliography deal with the mental health of adolescents and include materials for adolescents, parents, health educators, and health professionals. Resources cited include 11 videotapes and 64 publications dealing with the following topics: (1) teenage suicide; (2) mental illness in the family; (3) coping; (4) teenage…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, Child Rearing, Classification