title: Child and family outreach services as an adjunct to child and adolescent mental health treatment.
abstract: Child and Family Outreach Services have been an important adjunct to urban community child and adolescent mental health treatment. The Child and Family Outreach Services Program was developed as an extension of a child and adolescent outpatient and child partial hospitalization program to provide a comprehensive continuum of treatment. The Child and Family Outreach Program generalizes and links traditional therapeutic services to the patient's and family's environment through in-home, in-school, and community intervention. The latter treatment model enables the mental health service provider comprehensively to treat and effect positive change with high-risk patients and their families. Outreach service involvement has increased treatment compliance and reduced out-of-home placements.
authors: Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21224.
authors: M B
authors: MB
authors: Stein
authors: K L
authors: KL
authors: Hyde
authors: S J
authors: SJ
authors: Monopolis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D015142:Baltimore; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans