Best practices for mental health in child welfare: screening, assessment, and treatment guidelines.
The Best Practices for Mental Health in Child Welfare Consensus Conference focused on developing guidelines in five key areas (screening and assessment, psychosocial interventions, psychopharmacologic treatment, parent engagement, and youth empowerment) related to children's mental health. This paper provides an overview of issues related to the first three areas, presents the guidelines developed in these areas, and discusses the implications these guidelines have for the field of child welfare.
Romanelli
Lisa Hunter
LH
The REACH Institute, Resource for Advancing Children's Health, New York, New York 10123, USA. lisa@thereachinstitute.org
Landsverk
John
J
Levitt
Jessica Mass
JM
Leslie
Laurel K
LK
Hurley
Maia M
MM
Bellonci
Christopher
C
Gries
Leonard T
LT
Pecora
Peter J
PJ
Jensen
Peter S
PS
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005581:Foster Home Care; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs