Beyond cause and effect: some thoughts on research and practice in child psychiatric nursing.
OBJECTIVE
A comprehensive conceptual framework that informs about the complexity of childhood psychopathology.


OBJECTIVE
To discuss the importance of a unifying conceptual framework and multiple partnerships in research and practice that can inform critical events and effects of interventions at various system levels in the treatment of children.


METHODS
Literature review.


CONCLUSIONS
The most informative research and intervention will occur by using multiple measures and sources of information. As understanding of children and their problems in development and in context grows, intervention research that will be both useful, timely, and cost-effective must include cross-discipline teams of researchers and practitioners who will speak to these complexities.
Mohr
W K
WK
Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, USA. wkmohr@iupui.edu
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D004463:Ecology; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D002666:Psychology, Child