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Drakeford, Will; Garfinkel, Lili Frank – Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 2000
Examines racial factors within the juvenile justice and mental health systems that contribute to the overrepresentation of African American men and boys in correctional facilities. Recent efforts by lawmakers and academic institutions to address these inequalities are highlighted. Creation of the National Center on Education, Disability, and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Juvenile Justice, Males, Mental Health Programs
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Wandersman, Abraham – New Directions for Evaluation, 1999
Proposes a framework for the evaluation of health and human services programs in community settings. Applies this framework to the discussions in this special issue to see how well the chapters advance community-based program evaluation. Concludes that the chapters are valuable for those interested in improving the evaluation of community-based…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Evaluation Methods, Health Programs, Human Services
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Alfred, Norma J.; Turner, James C.; David, Felicita; DeLozier, David M.; Strikas, Raymond A. – Journal of American College Health, 2005
The United States experienced a shortage of influenza vaccine for the 2004-2005 influenza season. The authors surveyed college health programs to determine whether they had targeted vaccine to priority groups and knew how to reallocate remaining vaccine. They used an electronic message to distribute a Web-based survey to the members of 3…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Health Programs, Health Services, Colleges
Alter, Randi J.; Lohrmann, David K. – Health Educator, 2005
This study sought to identify successful strategies for garnering stakeholder support for coordinated school health programs (CSHP) - an interactive, multi-component approach to health promotion among students and school staff. In the late 1990's several states were awarded federal funding to build infrastructure for CSHP. Directors from these…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Health Promotion, School Health Services, Interviews
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Yampolskaya, Svetlana; Nesman, Teresa M.; Hernandez, Mario; Koch, Diane – American Journal of Evaluation, 2004
Using a case example of one of the mental health agencies in Florida, we demonstrate the utility of concept mapping for developing a program logic model and articulating a program theory for program assessment. The results of the concept mapping procedure enabled identification of 100 program services as described in statements by staff. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Concept Mapping, Mental Health Programs, Public Agencies
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Weist, Mark D.; Albus, Kathleen E. – Behavior Modification, 2004
Expanded school mental health (ESMH) programs, the focus of this special issue, provide comprehensive mental health care to youth in general and special education through partnerships between schools and community mental health agencies and programs. As these programs progressively develop in the United States, there is a critical need to build…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Adolescents, Children
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Vernberg, Eric M.; Jacobs, Anne K.; Nyre, Joseph E.; Puddy, Richard W.; Roberts, Michael C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
This article describes the development, implementation, and preliminary evaluation of a school-based Intensive Mental Health Program (IMHP) for 50 children (42 boys, 8 girls) with severe, early-onset, serious emotional disturbances (SED). Eighty-four percent of the children showed clinically significant improvement in overall functioning as…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Emotional Disturbances
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Reich, S.; Bickman, L.; Heflinger, C. A. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2004
Increasingly, professionals are recognizing the need to involve parents and other caregivers in the mental health treatment of children. However, parents and caregivers may not feel efficacious when participating in mental health care. Self-efficacy is a mechanism of human agency that describes people's beliefs about their capabilities to exercise…
Descriptors: Health Services, Empowerment, Caregivers, Self Efficacy
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Lochman, John E. – School Psychology Review, 2003
In the article by Ringeisen, Henderson, and Hoagwood (2003), the authors conclude that "simply stated, context matters" when implementing empirically supported interventions in the school setting, and they provide a state-of-the-art summary of how individual-level, organizational-level, and state/federal-level factors can affect dissemination. The…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Intervention, Educational Environment
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Ennis, Catherine D. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2007
The author discusses a line of research examining the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge associated with conceptual change in which she is engaged at the University of Maryland. It builds on foundational research by scholars in science, mathematics, and reading education as well as in motor learning and physical education pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Learning, Change, Physical Education
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Ivanova, Masha Y.; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Fombonne, Eric; Fonseca, Antonio Castro; Frigerio, Alessandra; Grietens, Hans; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Larsson, Bo; Leung, Patrick; Liu, Xianchen; Minaei, Asghar; Mulatu, Mesfin S.; Novik, Torunn S.; Oh, Kyung Ja; Roussos, Alexandra; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Dumenci, Levent; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Metzke, Christa Winkler; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Yang, Hao-Jan; Zilber, Nelly; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C.; Rescorla, Leslie A.; Almqvist, Fredrik; Weintraub, Sheila; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Chen, Wei J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2007
There is a growing need for multicultural collaboration in child mental health services, training, and research. To facilitate such collaboration, this study tested the 8-syndrome structure of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in 30 societies. Parents' CBCL ratings of 58,051 6- to 18-year-olds were subjected to confirmatory factor analyses,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Cooperation, Child Behavior
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Smith, Edward; Caldwell, Linda – Journal of Rural Health, 2007
Evidence-based substance use prevention programs have proliferated in schools and are being adopted by districts in rural settings and internationally. Little attention, however, has been paid to the adaptation process that occurs when these programs are moved to different contexts. In this commentary, the authors draw upon their experience with…
Descriptors: Prevention, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Program Implementation
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Levitt, Jessica Mass; Saka, Noa; Romanelli, Lisa Hunter; Hoagwood, Kimberly – Journal of School Psychology, 2007
When embedded within a continuum of mental health services including both prevention and treatment, school-based mental health identification programs can promote improved academic and mental health functioning among students. This article describes the scientific status of assessment instrumentation that may be used for early mental health…
Descriptors: Instrumentation, Identification, Health Services, Mental Health Programs
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Aricak, Tolga; Bekci, Banu; Siyahhan, Sinem; Martinez, Rebecca – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2008
Introduction: Historically, terrorism has occurred in various regions of the world and has been considered a local problem until the September, 11 terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001. After 9/11, terrorism has become a global concern. The definition of terrorism has changed from a violent act of a group of local people against their…
Descriptors: Health Services, Elementary School Students, Terrorism, Student Attitudes
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Vernberg, Eric M.; Roberts, Michael C.; Jacobs, Anne K.; Randall, Camille J.; Biggs, Bridget K.; Nyre, Joseph E. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2008
We describe changes in adaptive functioning for children enrolled in the Intensive Mental Health Program (IMHP), an innovative model for serving children with the most severe forms of SED. Most children show marked improvements in multiple indicators of role performance and symptomatology. Although a high risk, high need group, most children…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Outcomes of Treatment
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