Emotional,
Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges in Children
and Adolescents
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Path
Knowledge Path Table of Contents
- Web Sites:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - Additional Electronic Publications
- Databases: Data, Literature and Research, and Programs
- Electronic Newsletters and Online Discussion Groups
Resources on Specific Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Concerns
- Anxiety Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Child Maltreatment
- Domestic Violence
- Eating Disorders
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Juvenile Justice
- Learning Disabilities
- Mood Disorders (Depression, Bipolar Disorders)
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder
- Parental Depression and Other Mental Health Concerns
- Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder
- Substance Use
- Suicide
- Tourette Syndrome
Please provide feedback on this knowledge path.
This knowledge path has
been compiled by the Maternal
and Child Health Library at
Georgetown University. It offers a selection
of current, high-quality resources about
children and adolescents with emotional,
behavioral, and mental health challenges.
Resources tap into the health, education,
social services, and juvenile justice
literature. The path identifies tools
for staying abreast of new developments
in mental health care and for conducting
further research. Separate sections present
resources for families and schools. The
final part of the knowledge path presents
resources about specific emotional, behavioral,
and mental health challenges. The knowledge
path is aimed at health professionals,
program administrators, policymakers,
educators, and families, and it will
be updated periodically.
Related knowledge paths: Social and Emotional Development in Children and Adolescents and
the Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families.
For resources about the general care
and development of children and adolescents
with special health care needs, including
those with chronic illnesses, physical
disabilities, or emotional, behavioral,
and mental health challenges, see the
knowledge path, Children
and adolescents with special health
care needs.
See Bright
Futures in practice: Mental health (2002).
This guide contains mental-health-promotion
and substance-use-prevention guidelines
for infants, children, and adolescents.
The guide includes a section about
emotional, behavioral, and mental health
challenges encountered in primarily
care practice. The second section of
this knowledge path, Resources
on Specific Emotional, Behavioral,
and Mental Health Challenges, follows
the topics covered in the Bright Futures
guide with the addition of resources
about juvenile justice, schizophrenia,
suicide, and Tourette Syndrome.
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ).
Contains data and information from
the Kids'
Inpatient Database (KID), Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), National
Guideline Clearinghouse and
the National
Quality Measures Clearinghouse along
with research
findings about
mental health and children and
adolescents. AHRQ is the health
services research arm of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Resources and initiatives include
Child Health Toolbox: Measuring Performance in Child Health Programs Access, Quality, and Health Service Delivery. Contains tips and tools to help state and local policymakers and program administrators evaluate Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Title V, and other health programs for children and adolescents that include mental health services.
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry (AACAP).
Contains information about research,
legislative activities, and meetings
pertaining to child and adolescent
mental health; policy statements;
clinical practice guidelines; and
a directory of
child and adolescent psychiatrists.
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Mental
Health.
Contains program information, meeting
materials, policy statements, journal
articles, grant
project information,
a newsletter,
and other resources for health
professionals about mental health
and children and adolescents. A
separate section presents resources
about behavioral
health in
children and adolescents. Publications
include
Maltreatment of children with disabilities. (2007).
Strategies for system change in children's mental health: A chapter action kit. (2007).
- American
Institutes for Research (AIR).
Describes its services for programs
that offer help to children and
adolescents with emotional and
behavioral challenges and their
families. AIR administers a number
of projects about child and adolescent
mental health for the U.S. Departments
of Education, Health and Human
Services, and Justice, including
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP). Provides a series of monographs, articles, and research briefs for health and education professionals about what is working for children and adolescents with serious emotional challenges in systems of care.
Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health. Contains program and conference information, reports, an electronic newsletter, and other resources to support local communities in their efforts to successfully develop and implement systems of care. Recent publications include
- American
Psychological Association (APA). Contains
news, articles, brochures, and
information about publications
and programs on a wide range of
mental health issues affecting children
and families. APA
Books offers
several publications about
children and adolescents with emotional,
behavioral, and mental health challenges.
- Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law.
Provides legislative news, fact
sheets, and reports about children's
mental health.
Topics include health insurance
and financing, health care systems,
child welfare, education, and juvenile
justice. The center works to advance
and preserve the rights of people
with mental health challenges and
developmental disabilities. Recent
publications are
Checklist for advocates of school-wide positive behavior support integrated with mental health. (2006).
Checklist for local advocates of school wide positive behavior support with mental health. (2006).
Moving on: Federal programs to assist transition-age youth with serious mental health conditions. (2005). This collection of fact sheets provides information about 57 federal programs that address the wide range of needs of adolescents with serious mental health challenges who are transitioning into adulthood.
Way to go: School success for children with mental health care needs. (2006).
- Bright
Futures at Georgetown University.
Contains guidelines, distance-education
resources, and training tools for
a practical developmental approach
to providing health supervision
for infants, children, and adolescents,
including those with special health
care needs. Topics include general
health and development, mental
health, nutrition, oral health,
and physical activity. Some materials
are available in Spanish. Bright
Futures is funded by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
Materials include
Bright Futures in practice: Mental health. (2002). This guide contains mental-health-promotion and substance-use-prevention guidelines for infants, children, and adolescents. It is designed to inform primary care pediatric health professionals about the essentials of mental health promotion; to identify the support that infants, children, and adolescents need for good mental health; and to assist in the development and implementation of mental-health-promotion programs and policies. A companion volume provides tools to assist in mental health screening, education, and health care management.
What to expect and when to seek help: Bright Futures developmental tools for families and providers (2006). A companion referral tool helps professionals identify resources in their own communities. These tools are available in English and Spanish.
- Center
for Evidence-Based Practice: Young
Children with Challenging Behavior.
Offers fact sheets, policy briefs,
research syntheses, and teaching
and training tools for early childhood
professionals on evidence-based
recommendations for positive behavior
support. The center is funded by
the Department
of Education to
promote the use of evidence-based
practice to meet the needs of young
children who have, or are at risk
for, problem behavior. Recent publications
include
Promoting social, emotional and behavioral outcomes of young children served under IDEA. (2007).
- Center
for Health Care Strategies (CHCS).
Contains program information and
publications about improving the
quality of publicly financed health
care relating to behavioral health.
CHCS is a nonprofit policy resource
center that promotes high-quality
health care services for low-income
populations and people with chronic
illnesses and disabilities. Recent
initiatives and publications about
child and adolescent mental health
include
Improving Outcomes for Children Involved in Child Welfare. Offers information about this national collaborative with 11 managed care organizations to improve the delivery of physical and mental health care for children and adolescents in child welfare.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC): Mental Health Work Group.
Offers an electronic guide to CDC's
public health information on mental
health from across CDC's many agencies.
Includes links to CDC data reports
and other publications about mental
health, links to mental health
organizations by state, and links
to surveys and instruments used
in research studies to measure
mental health domains. Recent publications
include
Role of public health in mental health promotion. (2005).
Also see CDC's Data2010, the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), Healthy Youth!, CDC's Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) resource, and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
- Developmental
Behavioral Pediatrics Online (dbpeds.org).
Contains resources for health professionals
to promote better care and outcomes
for children, adolescents, and
families affected by developmental,
learning, and behavioral problems.
Includes forms, checklists, and
other screening tools; online tutorials;
an electronic
discussion group;
and articles to support improvement
in developmental and behavioral
screening, surveillance, and identification
of disabilities. dbpeds.org is
affiliated with AAP's Section on
Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
- Food
and Drug Administration (FDA):
Drug Information Pathfinder.
Links to a wealth of information
about specific medications, ensuring
safe use of medicine, drug approvals,
clinical trials, and more.
- Georgetown
University Center for Child and
Human Development (GUCCHD).
Offers program, conference, and
training information; publications;
and other resources to improve
the quality of life for all children
and adolescents, especially those
with special health care needs
or at risk for poor outcomes. GUCCHD
is a division of Georgetown University's
Department of Pediatrics. Resources
and initiatives about mental health
include
National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC). Contains resources and tools to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems. Materials are available in Spanish.
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health. Offers program and conference information and other resources about reforming services and building systems of care for children and adolescents who have, or are at risk for, mental health challenges and their families. Publications include
- Best
beginning: Partnerships between
primary health care and mental
health and substance abuse services
for young children and their
families.
(2005).
- National
TA Conference Calls.
This monthly series covers important
and emerging trends in the mental
health field. Presentations from
experts are followed by open
discussion. Includes descriptions
of upcoming calls as well as
an archive of previous calls
and presentation materials.
- Also see the Center's
electronic newsletter, Data
Matters.
- Best
beginning: Partnerships between
primary health care and mental
health and substance abuse services
for young children and their
families.
(2005).
- Healthy
People 2010.
Offers information about this national
health-promotion and disease-prevention
initiative. Focus
area 18 addresses
mental health and mental health
challenges. The initiative is coordinated
by the Office
of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion (ODPHP).
See Data2010 for
data about the Healthy
People 2010 mental
health objectives. See the HP2010
Information Access Project for
access to published literature
related to the Healthy
People 2010 objectives
about mental health and mental
health challenges. Also view proposed Healthy
People 2020 objectives for mental
health and mental disorders.
- MCH
Training Program: Developmental-Behavioral
Pediatrics.
Offers information about these
programs working to prepare health
professionals to develop or improve
the behavioral, psychosocial, and
developmental aspects of general
pediatric care. The training program
is part of the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
- National
Association of Mental Health Planning
and Advisory Councils (NAMHPAC).
Provides resources for state and
territory mental health planning
councils to help them function
more effectively. Also presents
brochures, toolkits, and position
statements about key mental health
issues, including evidence-based
practices in the mental health
system. NAMHPAC is an association
of advocates, parents, and consumers
involved with state mental health
planning across the country.
- National
Association of State Mental Health
Program Directors (NASMHPD).
Offers information about its technical
assistance programs, publications, data,
and other resources that focus
on state mental health services,
including programs for children,
adolescents, and families.
- National
Center for Children in Poverty
(NCCP).
Offers program information and
publications about children's
mental health.
Located at the Mailman School of
Public Health at Columbia University,
NCCP works to identify and promote
strategies that prevent child poverty
and improve the lives of children
and families with low incomes in
the United States. Recent publications
include
Challenges and opportunities in children's mental health: A view from families and youth. (2006).
Child and youth emergency mental health care: A national problem. (2007).
Facts about trauma for policymakers: Children's mental health. (2007).
Strengthening policies to support children, youth, and families who experience trauma. (2007).
- National
Children's Study.
Contains information about this
study to examine the effects of
environmental influences on the
health and development of more
than 100,000 children and adolescents
across the United States, following
them from before birth until age
21. As part of the study, the Development
and Behavior Working Group will
evaluate environmental factors
that are associated with development
and behavior. The National
Institute of Child Health and Development
(NICHD) and
a consortium of federal agencies
are conducting the study.
- National
Coalition for Health Professional
Education in Genetics (NCHPEG).
Includes an online education programs
about genetics and mental illness.
NCHPEG promotes health professional
education and access to information
about advances in human genetics.
- National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH):
Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Contains resources for health and
education professionals about the
diagnosis and treatment of mental
disorders in children and adolescents.
Resources include news about clinical
trials and multi-center collaborations
as well as sections devoted to
medications and to specific mental
disorders.
- National
Mental Health Information Center.
Offers an abundance of resources
about child
and adolescent mental health,
including publications and program
information that are aimed at health
professionals, educators, and policymakers.
Topics range from specific emotional,
behavioral, and mental health challenges
to mental health systems of care.
Also offers a mental health services locator and hotline information.
The center is a service of the Center
for Mental Health Services (CMHS),
which leads federal efforts to
treat mental health challenges
by promoting mental health and
by preventing or minimizing mental
illness when possible. CMHS is
part of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
Initiatives and publications include
American Indian/Alaska Native Circles of Care. Describes this grant program designed to support tribal governments and urban Indian programs in their efforts to design and assess culturally appropriate mental health service models for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges and their families. Lists funded communities.
Caring for Every Child's Mental Health. Presents this communications campaign that aims to help families, educators, and health professionals recognize mental health challenges and seek or recommend appropriate services. It also strives to reduce the stigma associated with mental health challenges. Includes an order form for a collection of materials about child and adolescent mental health.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Abuse State Infrastructure Grants. Describes this program to strengthen the capacity of states, territories, and Native American tribal governments to develop and sustain substance abuse and mental health services including early intervention, treatment, and/or continuing services and supports at the local level for children, adolescents, and young adults with serious emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges and their families. Lists grantees by state.
Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families. Describes this program to promote more effective ways to organize, coordinate, and deliver mental health services and supports for children, adolescents, and their families. Presents a series of monographs on promising practices in children's mental health services that have potential for replication across the country. Other recent publications include
- Annual report to Congress 2002-2003. (2007).
Mental health, United States. This biennial report presents statistics on all aspects of mental health care in the United States to help guide program and policy direction and identify a course toward system transformation in mental health care.
Partnership for Youth in Transition. Describes this grant program to plan, design, and implement youth transition programs for adolescents with serious emotional disorders and their families. Lists grantees by state. Publications include
- On the move: Helping young adults with serious mental health needs transition into adulthood. (2007).
Statewide Family Networks. Describes this grant program designed to increase the capacity of statewide family network grantees to participate in the development of policies, programs, and quality assurance activities related to the mental health of children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders and their families. Lists grantees by state.
- Promising
Practices Network (PPN) on Children,
Families, and Communities.
Offers a wealth of evidence-based
information about what works to
improve the lives of children,
adolescents, and families. Features
descriptions of evaluated
programs that
improve outcomes for children and
adolescents. Topic areas include behavior
problems and mental
health.
Also offers a collection of summaries from
the research literature about evidence-based
programs on topics that include mental
health and substance
abuse.
In addition, PPN contains information
about and links to resources on
forming, funding, and maintaining
community partnerships and collaborations;
service integration; program implementation;
evaluating the process and monitoring
outcomes; and results-based decision-making. Partner
Pages link
to collections of research and
information on specific priority
areas regarding children, adolescents,
families, and communities that
include mental health. Most of
the pages focus on a particular
state. PPN is a service of the RAND
Corporation.
- Research
and Training Center for Children's
Mental Health.
Provides research articles, data
summaries,
conference presentations, an organizations
directory,
and program information about improving
services and outcomes for children
and adolescents with serious emotional
or behavioral challenges and their
families. The center is part of
the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental
Health Institute at the University
of South Florida. In addition to
a series
of issue briefs and technical reports containing
summaries of lessons learned from
established system-of-care communities,
recent publications include
Examining the research base supporting culturally competent children's mental health services. (2006).
Organizational cultural competence: A review of assessment protocols. (2006).
Quick guide for self-assessment of family-run organizations in systems of care. (2007).
- Research
and Training Center on Family Support
and Children's Mental Health (RTC). Contains
program information, reports, and electronic
news services about
community integration for children
and adolescents with emotional
and behavioral challenges and their
families and about strengthening
family participation in child and
adolescent mental health services.
Located at Portland State University,
RTC is dedicated to promoting effective
services for families and their
children with emotional, behavioral,
or mental health challenges. Recent publications include
Wraparound: Key information, evidence, and endorsements. (2007).
- Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
Contains program and funding information
about improving mental health services
for children,
adolescents, and their families.
Also offers electronic
news services.
SAMHSA focuses on building resilience
and facilitating recovery for people
with or at risk for mental health
or substance use disorders. Recent
publications and initiatives include
From exclusion to belonging: Transforming mental health care in America. (2006).
Systems of Care. Offers program information and resources about promoting a coordinated network of community-based services and supports that are organized to meet the challenges of children and youth with serious mental health needs and their families.
Note: Many of SAMHSA's publications and initiatives about child and adolescent mental health are disseminated via the National Mental Health Information Center.
- Zero
to Three.
Provides a wealth of research-based
resources to promote early
childhood mental health by
supporting and strengthening families,
communities, and those who work
on behalf of children from birth
to age 3. Recent publications include
Building system capacity: Improving infant and early childhood mental health in Philadelphia. (2006).
Additional Electronic Publications
- Anda
R. 2006. Health
and social impact of growing up with
alcohol abuse and related adverse childhood
experiences: The human and economic
costs of the status quo.
Rockville, MD: National
Association for Children of Alcoholics
(NACOA).
This paper presents findings from the
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
Study, a decade-long, ongoing study
designed to examine the childhood origins
of many health and social problems.
The paper describes the study design
and discusses the interrelatedness
of ACEs. Types of ACEs discussed include
abuse, neglect, household dysfunction,
and domestic violence. The relationship
of ACE scores to alcohol consumption,
risk factors for HIV and AIDS, smoking
and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;
depression and suicide attempts; worker
performance; and health care costs
are examined.
- Center for Best Practices.
2005. Funding
for children's mental health services:
Making the most of Medicaid.
Washington, DC: National
Governors Association (NGA).
This issue brief describes the cost
to society of unmet mental health needs
and outlines the Medicaid options available
to states to expand treatment capacity
for children with mental health challenges.
- Children's
Law Center of Los Angeles (CLC).
2007. Making
reform real: Addressing the mental
health needs of children in the dependency
system.
Monterey Park, CA: Children's Law
Center of Los Angeles (CLC). This
report summarizes the discussion
and recommendations of the 2006 Foster
Youth Mental Health Summit, which
brought together mental health professionals,
social workers, foster parents, relative
caregivers, advocates, community
leaders, and children and adolescents
to identify and develop concrete,
workable solutions pertaining to
the provision of mental health services
to foster children in Los Angeles
County.
- Hess C. 2007. Building
better systems for child and adolescent
mental health.
Portland, ME: National
Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP).
This paper summarizes the results
of a meeting convened as a means
of engaging state, federal, professional,
and consumer experts from the child
mental health and maternal and child
health fields in a conversation about
how to develop stronger collaborative
approaches to improve systems for
child and adolescent mental health.
- Institute
of Medicine (IOM).
2006. Improving
the quality of health care for mental
and substance-use conditions.
Washington, DC: National
Academies Press.
This book examines the distinctive
characteristics of health care for
mental health and substance-use disorders,
including payment, benefit coverage,
and regulatory issues, as well as
health care organization and delivery
issues.
- Melnyk
BM, Moldenhauer Z, eds. 2006. KySS
(Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe and
Secure) guide to child and adolescent
mental health screening, early intervention,
and health promotion.
Cherry Hill, NJ: National
Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
(NAPNAP).
This guide for pediatric health professionals
focuses on mental health screening
and early intervention and mental health
promotion for children and adolescents.
Chapters cover assessing and screening
for common mental health problems;
diagnosing, managing, and preventing
mental health disorders; anxiety disorders;
attention deficit hyperactivity disorders;
eating disorders; grief and loss; mood
disorders; marital separation and divorce;
maltreatment; sexuality; substance
abuse; violence; reimbursement; and
brief interventions. Screening tools,
Web-based resources, and educational
handouts for parents as well as school-age
children and adolescents are also included.
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
1999. Mental
health: A report of the Surgeon General.
Washington, DC: Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
This report reflects an extensive
review of scientific literature on
mental health, as well as consultations
with mental health professionals
and consumers. A chapter is devoted
to child and adolescent mental health,
and it examines normal development,
risk factors and prevention, mental
health challenges, and health service
delivery.
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
2001. Mental
health: Culture, race, ethnicity.
Washington, DC: Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
This supplement to Mental health:
A report of the Surgeon General (1999)
discusses the barriers to services
that are encountered by persons of
certain social and cultural groups.
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
2000. Report
of the Surgeon General's Conference
on Children's Mental Health: A national
action agenda. Washington,
DC: Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
This report introduces a blueprint
for addressing children's mental
health needs in the United States.
- Podmostko
M. 2007. Tunnels
and cliffs: A guide for workforce development
practitioners and policymakers serving
youth with mental health needs.
Washington, DC: National
Collaborative on Workforce and Disability
for Youth.
This guide is designed to help workforce
development practitioners, administrators,
and policy makers enhance their understanding
of adolescents with mental health needs
and the supports necessary to help
them transition into the work force
successfully.
- President's
New Freedom Commission on Mental
Health.
2003. Achieving
the promise: Transforming mental
health care in America -- Final report.
Washington, DC: President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health. This
report describes the problems and
gaps in the mental health system
and makes recommendations for immediate
improvements that the federal government,
state governments, local agencies,
and public and private health professionals
can implement. The report describes
several model programs.
- President's
New Freedom Commission on Mental
Health.
2003. Major
federal programs supporting and financing
mental health care.
Washington, DC: President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health. This
document outlines federal support
for mental health care. Each program
description includes the responsible
agency, what is provided, eligibility
criteria, the application process,
the method of payment, and Web site
address for further information.
- Saldana D. 2006. Assessing
mental health needs in local communities:
A primer in research methods to assess
community needs and develop local
planning strategies.
Austin, TX: Hogg
Foundation for Mental Health.
This manual outlines a planning process
for local community mental health
services development. It is designed
for service agencies, civic planners,
and community organizations that
are interested in using a research-based
model that may be especially appropriate
for rural or underserved areas.
- Shalwitz
J, Sang T, Combs N, Davis K, Bushman
D, Payne B. 2007. Behavioral
health: An adolescent provider toolkit.
San Francisco, CA: Adolescent
Health Working Group, San Francisco.
This toolkit for health professionals
focuses on adolescent mental health
and substance use and includes screening
and assessment tools, evaluation and
treatment algorithms, brief office
interventions and counseling guidelines,
behavioral health information and worksheets
for health professionals, and health
education materials.
- Van Landeghem K, Hess
CA. 2005. Children's
mental health: An overview and key
considerations for health system stakeholders.
Washington, DC: National
Institute for Health Care Management
Foundation.
This issue paper presents (1) an overview
of important considerations for health
system efforts to promote and improve
the mental health of children and adolescents
and (2) key policy considerations for
promoting and advancing comprehensive
mental health systems for children
and adolescents.
- World
Health Organization (WHO).
2005. Atlas:
Child and adolescent mental health
resources. Global concerns: Implications
for the future.
Geneva, Switzerland: World Health
Organization. This report presents
a compilation of information about
country resources for mental health
program development including policy
availability, professional resources,
and mechanisms for financing services
to help governments and other interested
parties support the development of
child and adolescent mental health
services.
The databases listed below are excellent tools for identifying data, additional literature and research, and programs about children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges. Many of the entries below contain tips on how to use the databases efficiently. Please note that databases vary in how terms should be entered; for example, some require quotation marks and others don't. Enter search phrases as shown in bold below.
- Childstats.gov.
Presents statistics and reports about
children and families, including population
and family characteristics, economic
security, health, behavior, and social
environment, and education. Includes
statistics about children
with emotional or behavioral difficulties.
ChildStats.gov is a service of the
Federal Interagency Forum on Child
and Family Statistics. The Forum's
annual report, America's
children in brief: Key national indicators
of well-being,
details the status of children and
families in the United States.
- Child
Trends DataBank.
Contains data briefs about children
and adolescents with emotional,
behavioral, and mental health challenges
on topics that include depression,
suicide, substance use, learning
disabilities, and ADHD. The DataBank
also contains information about
the types of programs and interventions
that may influence particular outcomes
for children and adolescents. Child
Trends is
a nonprofit, nonpartisan research
organization providing research
and data to inform decision-making
that affects children and adolescents.
Child Trends also offers a series
of research briefs for professionals
about mental health issues and
outcome measures. Recent briefs
include
Assessing the mental health of adolescents: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners. (2007).
- Data2010:
The Healthy People 2010 Database.
Contains the most recent monitoring
data for tracking Healthy
People 2010.
To obtain data on the topic, click
on the field, Data by Focus Area.
Under the field, Select a Focus
Area, choose 18 - Mental Health
and Mental Disorders from the pop-up
menu. Next, click on the button
for Include Related Objectives
From Other Focus Areas in the Table.
Click on the Submit button. This
data set is provided by the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) via CDC
Wonder.
- Data
Resource Center for Child and Adolescent
Health (DRC).
Provides access to and use of data
from the National Survey of Children's
Health, 2003, and the National
Survey of Children with Special
Health Care Needs, 2001. Users
can search and compare results
on over 100 indicators of child
health and well-being; view state
and regional profiles on key measures;
explore survey content relevant
to Healthy
People 2010 objectives;
and compare findings at all levels
for children by age, race and ethnicity,
income, or health status. Social
and emotional challenges and mental
health care are among the health
indicators addressed. DRC is a
project of the Child
and Adolescent Health Measurement
Initiative (CAHMI).
- Kids'
Inpatient Database (KID).
Contains data from 2 to 3 million
hospital discharges of children
and adolescents in the United States
that researchers, policymakers,
and others can use to identify,
track, and analyze national trends
in children's health care utilization,
access, charges, quality, and outcomes.
KID provides data on children and
adolescents hospitalized with mental
health needs. KID may be purchased
for $200 for each year produced.
For general descriptive statistics
on mental health admissions in
KID, access
HCUPnet. Provides access to health statistics and information on hospital stays at the national, regional, and state levels. To identify data about mental health admissions in KID, select National and Regional Statistics on Children Only from KID. Select Researcher, medical professional. Under type of query, select Statistics on specific diagnosis or procedures. Select a year (e.g., 2003). Select Diagnoses grouped by Clinical Classifications Software (CCS). Select Principal diagnosis. Under the field, Browse all CCS categories, scroll to 5 Mental Disorders. Highlight the category of interest (e.g., Alcohol-related mental disorders). Hold the control key down and click to make multiple selections. Click on Next. Select the outcomes and measures of interest (e.g., Number of discharges) and click on Next. Select patient and hospital characteristics (e.g., All patients in all hospitals) and click on Next. View your results. HCUPnet is part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
- Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
Contains data on the specific health
services that Americans use, how
frequently they use them, the cost
of these services, and how they
are paid for, as well as data on
the cost, scope, and breadth of
private health insurance held by
and available to the U.S. population.
Data are collected about mental
health. MEPS is sponsored by the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ).
Analyses include
Antidepressant use in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population, 2002. (2005).
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute (NRI). Provides data and reports on various aspects of state mental health system financing, staffing, clinical services, and interactions with other public service systems. Also includes sources of information on the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs), including EBPs for children and adolescents. Select Search Mental Health Data and Topics to access NRI's major databases on state mental health systems and to search the NRI site for information on a specific topic (e.g., children). Recent reports include
- National
Quality Measures Clearinghouse
(NQMC).
Contains evidence-based health-care-quality
measures and measure sets for physicians,
hospitals, and health plans to evaluate
and improve the quality of health care
for consumers. Identify measures about
children and adolescents with emotional,
behavioral, and mental health challenges
by entering mental disorders in
the Disease/Condition field of the detailed
search form.
Scroll down on the search form to select
Age Range (e.g., Adolescent). Hold down
the control key (ctrl) or Apple command
key and click your mouse to make multiple
selections. Click on Search to get your
results. For measures about specific
mental health needs, type the name of
the disorder (e.g., depression) in the
Disease/Condition field of the detailed
search form and
scroll down to select Age Range. The
database is sponsored by the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
- Title
V Information System (TVIS).
Contains data from annual Title
V Block Grant applications and
reports submitted by all 59 U.S.
states and jurisdictions. To learn
about states' efforts to address
mental health in children and adolescents,
conduct two searches. Select Measurement
and Indicator Data and go to the
State Data section. Select State
Priority Needs Keyword Search and
choose Keyword: Mental Health and
Population: Children (1 through
21). Click on Start Search to get
your results. Go back to the TVIS
home page and select Measurement
and Indicator Data. Under State
Data, select State Performance
Measures and click on Search by
Keyword/Population. Select Keyword:
Mental Health and Population: Children
(1 through 21). Click on Start
Search to get your results. Title
V IS is a service of the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
- Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance System
(YRBSS): Youth Online.
Provides comprehensive results
from the YRBSS that can be viewed
by location (United States, state/territory,
or local) and health topic. The
YRBSS monitors priority health-risk
behaviors that contribute markedly
to the leading causes of death,
disability, and social problems
among adolescents and adults in
the United States. These behaviors,
often established during childhood
and early adolescence, include
those that contribute to unintentional
injuries and violence, tobacco
use, alcohol and other drug use,
sexual behaviors, dietary behaviors,
and inadequate physical activity.
Youth Online is a service of CDC's Division
of Adolescent and School Health
(DASH).
- Also see the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC),
the National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug
Information (NCADI),
the National
Violent Death Reporting System,
the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
(SAMHDA),
the report, Mental
health, United States (1983-
), the report, School
mental health services in the United
States, 2002-2003 (2005),
and the fact sheet, Suicide:
Adolescents and young adults (2006).
- ClinicalTrials.gov.
Provides access to information about
clinical research studies for a wide
range of diseases and conditions, including
those affecting the mental health of
children and adolescents. Included
are a summary of the purpose of the
study, recruiting status, criteria
for patient participation, location
of the trial, and contact information.
To identify mental-health-related studies,
select Search within Specific Fields:
Focused Search. Enter a disease or
condition (e.g., depression) in the
first field. Scroll to Age Group and
select Child (birth-17). Click on Search
to get your results. ClinicalTrials.gov
is a service of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) and
is developed by the National
Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews.
Presents systematic reviews of
a wide range of health interventions
internationally. To access the
abstracts of reviews about mental
health challenges, select Explore
by topic. Select a topic from the
menu (e.g., Developmental, Psychosocial,
and Learning Problems). Access
to the full-text article requires
a subscription that is available
in many hospital and university
health sciences libraries. The
database is published by the Cochrane
Collaboration,
an international nonprofit organization
based in the United Kingdom.
- Database
of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
(DARE).
Contains summaries of systematic
reviews that have met strict quality
criteria. Included reviews must
be about the effects of interventions.
Each summary also provides a critical
commentary on the quality of the
review. Type a mental health challenge
(e.g., depression) in the search
field and click on Search to identify
abstracts. Use MeSH,
the National Library of Medicine's
controlled vocabulary, to identify
terms. DARE is produced and maintained
by the Centre
for Reviews and Dissemination at
the University of York.
- HP2010
Information Access Project: Mental
Health and Mental Disorders.
Provides an automatic search mechanism
for published literature indexed
in PubMed related
to the Healthy
People 2010 objectives
about improving mental health and
ensuring access to appropriate,
quality mental health services.
Also links to the narrative for
each objective and the complete
chapter about mental health in
the text, Healthy
People 2010: Understanding and
improving health, 2nd ed. (2000).
This service is provided by the Partners
in Information Access for the Public
Health Workforce,
a collaboration of federal agencies,
public health organizations, and
health sciences libraries.
- Maternal
and Child Health Library at
the National
Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health (NCEMCH),
Georgetown University. Maintains
several databases to collect, manage,
and disseminate knowledge about
maternal and child health (MCH),
with special emphasis on knowledge
gained from initiatives and programs
supported by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
The library's bibliographic database
is
MCHLine®. Comprises an online catalog of materials in the Maternal and Child Health Library. Select recent items are listed in three bibliographies: (1) Adolescent Mental Health, (2) Children's Mental Health, and (3) Mental Health in Primary Care. Related bibliographies include Child Developmental Screening and Disasters and Terrorism.
The Maternal and Child Health Library also offers organizations and programs databases.
- National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth (NCFY) Literature Database. Contains citations, abstracts, and contact information for more than 14,000 publications that focus on adolescent development and family issues. To identify materials on the topic, enter "mental health" in the Subject Key Word(s) field and a date range (e.g., 2005:2007), and click on Search. An NCFY compilation of materials include
- National
Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC).
Contains evidence-based clinical
practice guidelines and related
materials for health professionals.
Identify guidelines about mental
health in children and adolescents
by entering "mental health" in
the Keyword field of the detailed
search form.
Scroll down on the search form
to select Age of Target Population
(e.g., Adolescent, Child, Infant).
Hold down the control key (ctrl)
or Apple command key and click
your mouse to make multiple selections.
For condition-specific guidelines,
go to Frequently
Requested Searches and
scroll to the section, Mental Health
and Mental Disorders to view a
list of automatic searches. Or
conduct your own search by typing
the name of the condition in the
Disease/Condition field of the detailed
search form and
scrolling down to select Age of
Target Population. The database
is sponsored by the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) in
partnership with the American
Medical Association (AMA) and America's
Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).
- PubMed.
Contains over 19 million citations
for biomedical articles from MEDLINE
and life science journals. Citations
may include links to full-text articles
from PubMed Central or publisher Web
sites. To identify citations on the
topic, enter terms in the search box.
Use the MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings) database to
identify terms. Refine your search
by clicking on Limits and making the
following selections
on the page: select a date (e.g. Published
in the last 2 years); click on Languages:
English; click on Species: Humans;
click on Ages: All Child; and select
Search Field Tags: MeSH Major Topic.
PubMed is a service of the National
Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Also see the Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Database,
the National
Center for Mental Health Promotion
and Youth Violence Prevention: Promote
Prevent Library,
and the State-Level
School Health Policies Database.
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Community
Pediatrics Grants Projects.
Archives previously funded community
pediatrics grant projects, including
those funded through the CATCH
Program, the Healthy Tomorrows
Partnership for Children Program,
the Community Pediatrics Training
Initiative, and the Healthy People
2010 Chapter Grants. Search by
target population, health topic
(including mental health), state/territory,
project activity, AAP program,
AAP district, and project year.
- Health
Services Research Projects in Progress
(HSRProj).
Provides information about ongoing
health services research and public
health projects. To identify projects
on the topic, enter the search
phrase (child OR adolescent)
AND mental health. Click on
Search to get your results. HSRProj
is funded by the National
Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Maternal
and Child Health Library at
the National
Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health (NCEMCH),
Georgetown University. Maintains
two databases to identify organizations
and programs focusing on children
and adolescents with emotional,
behavioral, and mental health challenges:
MCH Organizations Database. Lists over 2,000 government, professional, and voluntary organizations involved in MCH activities, primarily at a national level. To identify mental-health-related organizations, type "mental health" in the keyword field of the database search form. For condition-specific organizations, search the name of the condition in the keyword field.
MCH Projects Database. Comprises an online catalog of projects funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). MCHB funds several projects related to mental health in children and adolescents. To identify them, type "mental health" in the abstract field of the database search form. For condition-specific projects, search on the name of the condition in the abstract field. Also see MCH Training Program: Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics.
- National
Directory of Family-Run and Youth-Guided
Organizations for Children's Mental
Health.
Lists family-run and youth-guided
organizations and support groups
throughout the United States, U.S.
territories, and tribal nations
that are working to support families
who have children and adolescents
with emotional, behavioral, and
mental health challenges and to
improve mental health services
and supports. The database is a
service of the Research
and Training Center for Children's
Mental Health.
- National
Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help
Clearinghouse: Directory of Consumer-Driven
Services (CDS).
Contains contact information for
national and local consumer-driven
mental health programs. Search
by name, program category, state,
zip code, and/or keyword.
- National
Registry of Evidence-based Programs
and Practices (NREPP).
Presents information about interventions
for the prevention and treatment
of mental health problems and substance
use disorders. Search the
database by selecting from Topics
and/or Areas of Interest, Age,
and other fields as needed. Click
on Search to get your results.
NREPP is a service of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
- Also see the Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law,
the National
Mental Health Information Center,
the Promising
Practices Network (PPN) on Children,
Families, and Communities, Family
Voices,
the Federation
of Families for Children's Mental
Health, Parent
to Parent USA (P2P USA),
the Technical
Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers
(The Alliance),
and the Suicide
Prevention Resource Center (SPRC).
Electronic Newsletters and Online Discussion Groups
- About
Our Kids.
Offers three electronic newsletters
for parents, educators, and health
professionals. About Our Kids is
a service of the New York University
Child Study Center (CSC). The newsletters
are
Ask the Expert: A CSC monthly newsletter. This newsletter showcases a different mental health issue each month. It also includes information on upcoming events, lectures, and workshops as well as information about current research studies.
CSC letter. Published five times a year, this in-depth newsletter covers issues related to psychological development, academic problems, and mental health needs.
Parent letter. This monthly newsletter offers parents tips and advice on special topics relevant to school-age children. Articles are written in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean.
- Dbpeds.org
Discussion Forum.
Offers an electronic discussion
group for health professionals
who care for children and adolescents
with developmental and behavioral
problems. The forum is for clinical
case discussion, continuing education,
and scientific exchange.
- Friday's
Child.
This bi-weekly electronic newsletter
by Family
Voices contains
information for existing and emerging
family advocates of children and
adolescents with special health
care needs on topics such as leadership,
mentoring, partnering, and team
building.
- IMPACT
Children's Mental Health Electronic
Newsletter.
This monthly publication contains
articles and shares information
about funding opportunities, conferences,
announcements, and resources related
to child and adolescent mental
health. IMPACT is a service of
the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
- National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI):
Communities.
Presents a set of electronic discussion
groups for those affected by mental
health challenges. Includes groups
for specific mental health conditions,
for adolescents and young adults,
and for families and caregivers.
- National
Center for Mental Health Promotion
and Youth Violence Prevention E-newsletter.
This monthly electronic newsletter
offers information about conferences,
funding, resources, and other news
pertaining to adolescent mental
health promotion and violence prevention.
- National
Technical Assistance Center for
Children's Mental Health: Data
Matters.
This interactive forum allows participants
to read an article, browse additional
resources, review posted comments,
access previous discussions, and
post their own comments to facilitate
greater interaction and discussion
about children's mental health.
Medicaid financing changes, integrating
mental health and substance abuse,
and early childhood mental health
screening and assessment are among
the topics covered.
- Research
and Training Center for Children's
Mental Health: Data Trends.
This electronic newsletter summarizes
recent published articles about
systems of care for children and
adolescents with emotional and
behavioral challenges and their
families and presents new developments
in the field of children's mental
health.
- Research
and Training Center on Family Support
and Children's Mental Health (RTC).
Offers several electronic news
services
Featured discussions. This electronic discussion forum provides an opportunity for expressing and exchanging opinions on topics related to family support and child and adolescent mental health.
Focal point. This research bulletin about family support and child and adolescent mental health is published semi-annually. Topics of recent issues include effective interventions for underserved populations, traumatic stress and child welfare, juvenile justice, and strengthening social support.
RTC updates. This electronic newsletter presents information about new research and developments in the field of child and adolescent mental health and news about RTC's publications, products, research, and conferences.
- Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
Offers two electronic communication
services:
SAMHSA news. This bimonthly newsletter offers updates and information about SAMHSA campaigns and initiatives, grants, data, treatment updates, and new publications about substance use and the prevention and treatment of mental health challenges.
SAMHSA eNetwork. Offers a personalized electronic mailing service for researchers, health professionals, and families about SAMHSA grants, publications, campaigns, programs, and data reports.
- Technical
Assistance Partnership for Child
and Family Mental Health Newsletter.
Offers a monthly electronic newsletter
for community and family members
about funding sources, research
advances, and other resources.
- See the Maternal and Child Health Library's family resource brief, Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges in Kids and Teens.
- Web Sites
- CDC's
Healthy Youth! Mental Health.
Offers program information, statistics,
and an annotated list
of publications by
CDC and other organizations about
mental health and school-age children
and adolescents. Also presents
the Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance System
(YRBSS), which
monitors health risk behaviors
that contribute markedly to the
leading causes of death, disability,
and social problems among adolescents
and adults in the United States.
- Center
for Health and Health Care in Schools
(CHHCS): School-Based Mental Health.
Offers program descriptions and
background information about mental
health services in schools, including
programs that serve the children
of immigrants and refugees. Includes
information and tools for building
school-based mental health programs.
CHHCS is a policy and program resource
center located at The George Washington
University School of Public Health
and Health Services.
- Center
for Mental Health in Schools: School
Mental Health Project (SMHP).
Contains a wealth of resources
for health professionals, educators,
and families about mental health
in schools, including resource
packets, policy reports, fact sheets,
a school mental health professional
directory, an electronic
newsletter,
an online
discussion forum,
training tutorials, and program
and conference information. The
center is located at the University
of California Los Angeles. A selection
of recent publications includes
Current status of mental health in schools: A policy and practice analysis. (2006).
Mapping a school's resources to improve their use in preventing and ameliorating problems. (2006).
Mental health in schools and public health. (2006).
School and community collaboration to promote a safe learning environment. (2006).
Want to work with schools? What is involved in successful linkages? (2006).
- Center
for School-Based Mental Health
Programs.
Offers publications and links to
resources to promote the development
and implementation of effective
programs to enhance students' healthy
psychological development and to
reduce mental-health-related barriers
to learning. The center is located
at Miami University, Ohio. Recent
publications include
Roles of school and community providers in the delivery of school based mental health services. (2006).
Why we need school mental health programs and services. (2006).
- Center
for School Mental Health (CSMH).
Offers conference and meeting information,
legislative updates, issue briefs,
resource packets, and other materials
for health and education professionals
about promising ideas for advancing
research, training, and practice
in school mental health. CSMHA
is located at the University of
Maryland School of Medicine. Recent
publications and initiatives include
Cultural competency and school mental health. (2006).
School Mental Health Connection. Offers resources for education, health, and social services professionals, families, and students to help schools improve school environments by identifying students with mental health challenges and providing them with referrals for treatment. Information is based on current research, including prominent evidence-based practices, as well as lessons learned from local, state, and national initiatives.
Suicide prevention in the schools. (2006).
- Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Database.
Covers all aspects of education-related
issues through journal articles,
research reports, teaching guides,
curricula, conference papers, and
books. To identify resources on
the topic, click on Advanced Search.
In the field, Search for, select
Descriptors (from Thesaurus) and
enter a mental health condition.
View the mental health section
of the ERIC
Thesaurus for
assistance with terminology. Enter
a publication date range (e.g.,
From 2006 to 2007). Click on Search
to get your results. ERIC is sponsored
by the Department
of Education.
- National
Assembly on School-based Health
Care (NASBHC): School Mental Health.
Offers program information, tools,
and resources for implementing,
evaluating, and improving school-based
mental health services. Includes
links to comprehensive mental-health-assessment
tools frequently used in school-based
health centers. NASBHC also offers
background information about school-based
health care along with resources
for advocacy, funding, evaluation,
and quality improvement.
- National
Association of School Psychologists
(NASP).
Offers professional standards,
training, and conference information,
position statements, advocacy resources,
and other materials for school
psychologists about mental health
in children and adolescents. Also
offers Success
In School/Skills for Life for
parents, teachers, and students
containing a series of fact sheets
about academic, emotional, and
social development in children
and adolescents. The topics rotate
throughout the school year and
include materials in Spanish.
- National
Association of State Boards of
Education (NASBE): State School Health Policy Database.
Comprises a collection of state laws and policies in key areas of school health. Click on View by Topic. Scan the categories in the left sidebar and choose a topic (e.g., Emotional, Social, and Mental Health Education; Requirements for School Psychologists; Counseling and Mental Health Services).
- National
Center for Mental Health Promotion
and Youth Violence Prevention.
Includes program, funding, and
conference information; research
briefs; evidence-based intervention
fact sheets; an online
library;
an electronic
newsletter;
and other resources. The center
provides technical assistance and
training to school districts and
communities that receive grants
from the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
These programs and their grantees
seek to increase the capacity of
schools and communities to meet
the mental health needs of students
and their families; create and
expand coalitions to prevent adolescent
violence, suicide, substance use,
and other emotional, behavioral,
and mental health challenges; and
prevent violence in schools. Resources
include
Promote Prevent Library. Contains information on publications and Web sites about mental health promotion and violence prevention in schools. To search for resources on the topic, click on Mental Health and Mental Illness in the left sidebar. Narrow your search by clicking on a subtopic listed in the sidebar.
- National
Community of Practice on School
Behavioral Health.
Presents resources to support and
facilitate the shared work that
occurs among national organizations,
state and local agencies, and technical
assistance centers to address school
behavioral health services. Access
publications, conference information,
electronic discussion notes, and
other resources by clicking on
the states and practice groups
listed in the left sidebar. Sponsors
of the community are the IDEA
Partnership and
the Center
for School Mental Health (CSMH).
- National
Dissemination Center for Children
with Disabilities (NICHCY).
Provides a wealth of resources
for families, educators, and other
professionals on disabilities and
disability-related issues that
include mental health challenges,
early intervention, special education
and related services, individualized
education programs, family issues,
education rights, and transition
to adult life. State
resource sheets list
up-to-date contact information
for state agencies and organizations,
disability-specific organizations,
parent groups and parent training
and information centers, and other
organizations within each state
that address disability-related
issues, including those related
to mental health. Materials are
available in English and Spanish.
NICHCY is funded by the Department
of Education (ED).
- Technical
Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral
Interventions
and Supports (PBIS).
Offers training and technical assistance
resources; a bibliography of research
articles; conference presentation
materials; and planning, implementation,
and evaluation tools for identifying,
adapting, and sustaining effective
school-wide disciplinary practices.
Also provides contact information
for state PBIS coordinators. Resources
are available in Spanish. The center
was established by the Office of
Special Education Programs, Department
of Education, to address the behavioral
and discipline systems needed for
students' successful learning and
social development.
- See the National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) resources, Parents
and teachers as allies (2007)
and Ten
best practices for schools (2007).
- Also see the Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law,
the Center
for Effective Collaboration and Practice
(CECP),
the Center
for Evidence-Based Practice (CEBP),
the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),
the National
Mental Health Information Center,
the Promising
Practices Network (PPN) on Children,
Families, and Communities,
the Research
and Training Center for Children's
Mental Health,
the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA),
the Technical
Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers,
and Zero
to Three.
- Also note: Many of
the resources presented in the final
section of this knowledge path, Resources
on Specific Emotional, Behavioral,
and Mental Health Concerns,
contain resources for schools. In particular,
see the section, Learning
Disabilities.
- Additional Electronic Publications
- Jaycox
L, Morse L, Tanielian T, Stein B. 2006. How
schools can help students recover from
traumatic experiences: A tool-kit for
supporting long-term recovery.
Santa Monica, CA: RAND
Corporation.
This toolkit shows how to provide school-based
mental health programs for students
exposed to violence, natural disasters,
and other traumatic events. A fact
sheet summarizes
the toolkit.
- Taras
H, Duncan P, Luckenbill D, Robinson
J, Wheeler L, Wooley S, eds. 2004. Health,
mental health and safety guidelines
for schools.
Elk Grove Village, IL: American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP);
Castle Rock, CO: National
Association of School Nurses (NASN).
This online compendium is designed
to help community and school leaders
determine the breadth of school health,
mental health, and safety issues and
set priorities for future action. The
compendium was developed by health,
education, and safety professionals
from more than 30 different national
organizations; parents; and other collaborators
with support from the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
The compendium draws upon published
guidelines on specific components of
school health and safety programs and
on overall coordination of these programs.
- See the National
Collaborative on Workforce and Disability
for Youth publication, Tunnels
and cliffs: A guide for workforce
development practitioners and policymakers
serving youth with mental health
needs.
(2007).
- See the Research
and Training Center for Children's
Mental Health report, School-based
mental health: An empirical guide
for decision-makers (2006).
- See
the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) report, School
mental health services in the United
States, 2002-2003 (2005).
This report describes the first national
survey of mental health services in
a representative sample of public elementary,
middle, and high schools and their
associated school districts in the
United States. Topics include types
of mental health challenges common
in school settings, types of services
available, numbers and qualifications
of school mental health services staff,
provision for mental health services
delivery including partnerships with
community-based providers, and funding
sources.
Resources
on Specific Emotional, Behavioral, and
Mental Health Concerns
Anxiety
Disorders
Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism
Spectrum Disorders
Child
Maltreatment
Domestic
Violence
Eating
Disorders
Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities
Juvenile
Justice
Learning
Disabilities
Mood Disorders
(Depression, Bipolar Disorders)
Oppositional
Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and
Borderline Personality Disorder
Parental
Depression and Other Mental Health Concerns
Schizophrenia
and Schizoaffective Disorder
Substance
Use
Suicide
Tourette
Syndrome
Anxiety Disorders (Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder)
- Anxiety
Disorders Association of America
(ADAA): Anxiety Disorders in Children
and Teens.
Offers information for parents
and educators about anxiety disorders,
finding help, and treatment.
- National
Child Traumatic Stress Network
(NCTSN).
Provides resources for families,
professionals, schools, and the
media about child and adolescent
traumatic stress, effective interventions,
data, and preparedness to lessen
traumatic effects. Child abuse,
school violence, terrorism, natural
disasters, culture and trauma,
and community resilience are among
the topics addressed. Resources
are available in Spanish. NCTSN
is funded by the Center
for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and
jointly coordinated by Duke University
and the University of California,
Los Angeles.
- See the Maternal and
Child Health Library's Reaching
out to children and youth following
disasters: Selected resources.
- Also see the American
Psychological Association (APA); Food
and Drug Administration (FDA); MEDLINEplus;
NCCP's Strengthening
policies to support children, youth,
and families who experience trauma;
the Child
and Adolescent Depression and Anxiety
Toolkit;
the report, How
schools can help students recover
from traumatic experiences (2006),
and the guide, KySS
(Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe
and Secure) guide to child and adolescent
mental health screening, early intervention,
and health promotion (2006).
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- CDC's
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD) Resource.
Offers information for families
and health and education professionals
about ADHD and its symptoms, effects
on child and adolescent development,
and treatment. Includes data, research
information, and Spanish-language
resources.
- Help4Kids with ADHD.
Offers evidence-based information
about ADHD for families, health
professionals, and educators. This Web site
is a service of the Tufts Medical Center.
- National
Initiative for Children's Healthcare
Quality (NICHQ): ADHD.
Presents a set of tools to improve
the quality of care for children
and adolescents with ADHD. NICHQ
promotes evidence based, family
centered care for children with
chronic conditions.
- National
Resource Center on AD/HD (NRC).
Provides evidence-based information
to families and professionals about
ADHD in children, adolescents,
and adults. Also includes information
about diagnosis and treatment;
dealing with legal, health insurance,
and public benefits systems; educational
issues; and living with ADHD. Offers
a toll-free telephone information
service: (800) 233-4050. Also offers
Spanish-language resources. NRC
is a program of Children
and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (CHADD) and
is funded by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
- Also see the American
Psychological Association (APA),
the Child
Trends DataBank, Developmental
Behavioral Pediatrics Online (dbpeds.org),
the Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Database, Facts
for Families, Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), LD
Online, MEDLINEplus,
the National
Dissemination Center for Children
with Disabilities (NICHCY),
the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),
and the guide, KySS
(Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe
and Secure) guide to child and adolescent
mental health screening, early intervention,
and health promotion (2006).
- See the Maternal and
Child Health Library's Knowledge
path: Autism spectrum disorders.
- Childhelp®.
Offers information about child maltreatment
and about advocacy, prevention, treatment,
and community outreach efforts. For
help with reporting child abuse and
neglect or to speak with a counselor,
contact Childhelp® at (800) 422-4453.
The hotline is staffed 24 hours a day,
7 days a week with professional crisis
counselors who, through interpreters,
can provide assistance in 140 languages.
The hotline offers crisis intervention,
information, literature, and referrals
to thousands of emergency, social service,
and support resources. All calls are
anonymous and confidential.
- Child Welfare Information Gateway. Offers resources about child maltreatment, including definitions, signs and symptoms, statistics and prevalence, types of child abuse and neglect, risk and protective factors, the impact on individuals and society, and child fatalities. Includes resources about preventing child abuse and neglect and responding to child abuse and neglect. Some resources are available in Spanish. The gateway is a service of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Recent publications include
- Matrix:
Seclusion and Restraint.
Offers program, funding, and conference
information and other resources
about eliminating the use of seclusion
and restraint in mental health
services. The matrix is an initiative
of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
Recent publications include
Roadmap to seclusion and restraint free mental health services for persons of all ages. (2006).
- Prevent
Child Abuse America.
Offers program and research information
and materials in English and Spanish
that promote positive parenting
and a community-wide approach to
child abuse prevention. Also offers
a teleconference series for professionals
and contact information for state
chapters.
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(AACAP).
2002. Reactive
Attachment Disorder.
Washington, DC: American Academy
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(AACAP). This fact sheet describes
the causes, symptoms, and treatment
for this clinical condition.
- Butchart A, Harvey
AP, Mian M, Furniss T. 2006. Preventing
child maltreatment. A guide to taking
action and generating evidence.
Geneva, Switzerland: World
Health Organization (WHO).
This report provides technical advice
for professionals working in governments,
research institutes, and nongovernmental
organizations on how to measure the
extent of child maltreatment and its
consequences and how to design, implement,
and evaluate prevention programs. The
report also offers important considerations
for detecting and responding to child
maltreatment. The report is available
in English, French, and Arabic.
- Child
Welfare League of America.
2004. Achieving
better outcomes for children and
families: Reducing restraint and
seclusion.
Washington, DC: Child Welfare League
of America. This report provides
background information about the
Best Practices in Behavior Support
and Intervention Project, outlines
the project's results, details the
specific interventions implemented
by the project demonstration sites,
summarizes promising practices to
reduce restraint and seclusion, and
provides direction for future research.
- Exceptional
Parent Magazine.
2007. Position
statement on the use of restraints.
Westwood, NJ: EP Global Communications,
Inc. This statement declares Exceptional
Parent's opposition to the use of
restraint, seclusion, and aversive
practices to respond to or control
a child's behavior.
- Frost
L, Rodriguez R, Gober KJ, eds. 2006. Safe
and appropriate behavioral interventions:
Changing the culture of care.
Austin, TX: Hogg
Foundation for Mental Health.
This training guide is designed to
help mental health professionals explore
the use of seclusion and restraint
in various juvenile care settings.
It presents eight scenarios in which
staff must respond to a client who
may need seclusion or restraint. Although
many of the scenarios presented result
in restraint, the scenes illustrate
cues that are overlooked that could
have led to de-escalation, making the
restraint unnecessary.
- Kutz GD. 2009. Seclusions
and restraints: Selected cases of
death and abuse at public and private
schools and treatment
centers. Washington, DC: Government Accountability
Office (GAO). This Congressional testimony provides an
overview of seclusions and
restraint laws applicable to
children in public and private
schools, reports on
allegations of student death and
abuse from the use of these
methods, and
examines the facts and
circumstances surrounding cases
where a student died or suffered
abuse as a result of being secluded
or restrained.
- Please note: The Child
Death Review Process presented
by the National
MCH Center for Child Death Review is
being revised to allow for national
data tracking on preventable child
deaths owing to the use of restraints.
A companion training protocol is
also being revised.
- Also see the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Center
for Health Care Strategies (CHCS); MEDLINEplus;
the National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI);
the report, Health
and social impact of growing up with
alcohol abuse and related adverse
childhood experiences: The human
and economic costs of the status
quo (2006);
the report, Making
reform real: Addressing the mental
health needs of children in the dependency
system (2007);
and the guide, KySS
(Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe
and Secure) guide to child and adolescent
mental health screening, early intervention,
and health promotion (2006).
- See the Maternal and
Child Health Library's Knowledge
path: Domestic violence.
- Also see the report, Health
and social impact of growing up with
alcohol abuse and related adverse
childhood experiences: The human
and economic costs of the status
quo (2006).
Eating Disorders (Anorexia, Bulimia)
- National
Eating Disorders Association (NEDA).
Offers resources for families,
friends, health professionals,
educators, and coaches about anorexia,
bulimia, and binge eating disorder.
Some resources are available in
Spanish. Also offers program information,
curricula, and an online directory
of doctors, nutritionists, counselors,
and inpatient and outpatient facilities
by state. In addition, the NEDA
Helpline is a nationwide, toll-free
service linking those affected
by eating disorders and their families
to information, support, and referral
to eating-disorders-treatment professionals.
Telephone: (800) 931-2237.
- National
Association of Anorexia Nervosa
and Associated Disorders (ANAD).
Presents general information about
eating disorders and information
about legislative activities and
programs. Includes a set of guidelines
for school personnel to identify
and help students who may have
an eating disorder. Telephone:
(847) 831-3438.
- Also see the Maternal and
Child Health Library's organizations
resource list, Eating disorders, and the knowledge paths, Child and adolescent nutrition and Overweight and obesity in children
and adolescents.
- Also see MEDLINEplus,
the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),
and the guide, KySS
(Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe and
Secure) guide to child and adolescent
mental health screening, early intervention,
and health promotion (2006).
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Administration
on Developmental Disabilities (ADD).
Offers program information and
links to resources that promote
independence, productivity, and
integration and inclusion into
the community for individuals with
developmental disabilities and
their families. Includes contact
information for the State
Councils on Developmental Disabilities
Program, State
Protection and Advocacy Agencies,
the National
Network of University Centers for
Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
Education, Research, and Service, Projects
of National Significance,
and national
organizations.
ADD is part of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- American
Association on Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).
Offers conference, legislative,
and membership information, fact
sheets, and position statements
for professionals who support people
with intellectual and developmental
disabilities.
- ARC
of the United States.
Offers fact sheets and guides to
supports and services for families
raising children with intellectual
and developmental disabilities.
Also offers contact information
for local chapters. Some resources
are only available after registering
online with ARC.
- Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
Center for Excellence.
Provides program information and
resources about fetal alcohol spectrum
disorders, which includes fetal
alcohol syndrome, fetal alcohol
effects, alcohol-related neurodevelopmental
disorder (ARND), and alcohol-related
birth defects. Includes materials
to raise awareness about FASD.
The center is part of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
- National
Down Syndrome Society (NDSS).
Offers research, policy, and legislative
information to support individuals
with Down syndrome and other intellectual
disabilities and their families.
Resources address health, development,
and education issues and are available
in English and Spanish.
- National
Fragile X Foundation (NFXF).
Offers research and conference
information and resources for professionals
and families about the diagnosis
and treatment of Fragile X syndrome.
Includes contact information for
parent support groups. Some resources
are available in Spanish.
- Also see Developmental
Behavioral Pediatrics Online (dbpeds.org),
the Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Database,
and the National
Dissemination Center for Children
with Disabilities (NICHCY).
- National
Center for Mental Health and Juvenile
Justice (NCMHJJ).
Provides program information, publications,
online training curricula, and
summaries of evidence-based practices
to improve services for adolescents
with mental health challenges in
contact with the juvenile justice
system. NCMHJJ is funded by the Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention (OJJDP) and
the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
Recent publications and initiatives
include
Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice. Offers information about this initiative to create successful and replicable models of juvenile-justice-system reform. Mental health and substance abuse are among the issues addressed.
Trauma among youth in the juvenile justice system: Critical issues and new directions. (2007).
- Clark K, Gehshan S.
2006. Meeting
the health needs of youth involved
in the juvenile justice system.
Portland, ME: National
Academy for State Health Policy.
This paper describes the limits to
and opportunities for organizing and
funding health services for adolescents
during and after their involvement
in the juvenile justice system. The
paper also highlights a number of promising
practices and service models in states.
- Koppelman J. 2005. Mental
health and juvenile justice: Moving
toward more effective systems of
care.
Washington, DC: National
Health Policy Forum.
This issue brief discusses the mental
health needs of adolescents who are
involved with the juvenile justice
system, how they come into contact
with the system, and the evidence
on the availability and quality of
mental health services for such adolescents.
The paper also explores public policy
options for avoiding dependence on
the juvenile justice system as a
last resort for treating adolescents
with mental health challenges.
- Teplin LA, Abram KM,
McClelland GM. 2006. Psychiatric
disorders of youth in detention.
Rockville, MD: Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention (OJJDP).
This bulletin reports on research that
measured the prevalence of alcohol,
drug, and mental health challenges
among adolescents detained at the Cook
County Juvenile Temporary Detention
Center in Illinois. It presents information
to help the juvenile justice system
detect adolescents with mental health
challenges and respond with an integrated
system of services.
- See the Maternal and
Child Health Library's Knowledge
path: Adolescent violence prevention.
- Also see the Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law,
the National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI),
and the report, Juvenile
justice and mental health: Working
together for the best outcomes for
youth with serious emotional disorders (2006).
- LD
Online.
Contains articles, fact sheets,
discussion groups, and
"ask the expert" opportunities for
parents, teachers, and other professionals
about a wide range of learning disabilities.
LD OnLine, an educational service of
public television station WETA in Washington,
D.C., works in association with the National
Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities.
- National
Center for Learning Disabilities
(NCLD).
Offers online resources for parents,
educators, and individuals with
learning disabilities. Resources
for parents include information
and tools for navigating the special
education process and advocating
for children with learning disabilities
at home and school. Resources for
educators include suggestions and
strategies for assisting students
with learning disabilities in their
classrooms. Also offers resources
for adolescents with learning disabilities
to help with decisions about school,
finding support, and building skills
and managing a learning disability
in adulthood. Also presents an
electronic newsletter and online
discussion forums as well as a
resource directory by state.
- Also see Child
Trends DataBank, Developmental
Behavioral Pediatrics Online (dbpeds.org),
the Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Database,
and the National
Dissemination Center for Children
with Disabilities (NICHCY).
Mood Disorders (Depression, Bipolar Disorder)
- Child
and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation.
Offers information for families
about pediatric bipolar disorder.
Includes a local directory of family
support groups.
- Child
and Adolescent Depression and Anxiety
Toolkit.
Presents links to online health
information resources focused on
anxiety and depression in children
and adolescents. Lists links to
Spanish-language resources. The
toolkit is a collaboration between
the Washington State Department
of Health's Children with Special
Health Care Needs Program and the
Center for Children with Special
Needs.
- ParentsMedGuide.org.
Contains information for families and
professionals about treating depression
in children and adolescents, including
information on treatment alternatives
and current research findings. This
resource is developed by the American
Psychiatric Association and the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(AACAP).
- Depression
and Bipolar Support Alliance.
2003. Storm
in my brain: Kids and mood disorders
(Bipolar Disorder and Depression).
Chicago, IL: Depression and Bipolar
Support Alliance. This book was written
by children for children to explain
what it is like to have mood disorders.
- Also see the American
Psychological Association (APA), Child
Trends DataBank, Facts
for Families, Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH),
the report, Health
and social impact of growing up with
alcohol abuse and related adverse
childhood experiences: The human
and economic costs of the status
quo (2006),
and the guide, KySS
(Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe
and Secure) guide to child and adolescent
mental health screening, early intervention,
and health promotion (2006).
Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder
- About
Our Kids.
Offers resources about conduct
disorder.
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry (AACAP).
Offers resources about oppositional
defiant disorder
and conduct
disorder.
- Mental
Health America (MHA): Youth and
Families.
Offers resources about conduct
disorder.
- National
Mental Health Information Center.
Offers resources about child
and adolescent conduct disorder.
- See the National
Technical Assistance Center on Positive
Behavioral Interventions and Supports
(PBIS).
Other sources for information about
PBIS include the Bazelon
Center for Mental Health Law;
the Center
for Evidence-Based Practice: Young
Children with Challenging Behavior; Developmental
Behavioral Pediatrics Online (dbpeds.org);
the National
Center for Mental Health Promotion
and Youth Violence Prevention;
and the training guide, Safe
and appropriate behavioral interventions:
Changing the culture of care (2006).
- Also see the juvenile
justice section
of this knowledge path and the Maternal
and Child Health Library's Knowledge
path: Adolescent violence prevention.
Parental Depression and Other Mental Health Concerns
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry (AACAP).
Offers resources about children
of parents with mental health needs.
- Mental
Health America (MHA): Youth and
Families.
Offers a fact
sheet series for
parents who have a mental health
need, including depression. MHA
also has a hotline.
- National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Offers resources about depression in
men and women.
- Olson A, Gaffney C.
2007. Parental
depression screening for pediatric
clinicians: An implementation manual.
New York, NY: Commonwealth
Fund. This
online manual provides a method for
pediatric health professionals to routinely
screen for parental depression and
to refer parents for help.
- Onunaku N. 2005. Improving
maternal and infant mental health:
Focus on maternal depression.
Los Angeles, CA: Center
for Healthier Children, Families
and Communities.
This paper discusses the impact of
maternal depression on the social
and emotional health of young children.
It recommends specific steps that
early childhood program and public
health administrators can take to
address the unmet mental health needs
of mothers while ultimately promoting
the social and emotional health,
school readiness, and future functioning
of very young children.
- Van Landeghem K. 2006. Financing
strategies for Medicaid reimbursement
of maternal depression screening
by pediatric providers.
Portland, ME: National
Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP).
This news brief discusses strategies
for financing Medicaid reimbursement
of maternal depression screening
by pediatric health professionals.
The brief explains the relationship
between the healthy development of
young children and maternal depression,
delineates key strategies for reimbursement,
and presents a case study of reimbursement
in Illinois.
- See the Maternal and
Child Health Library's Knowledge path: Depression
during and after pregnancy.
Also see MEDLINEplus.
Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder
- World
Fellowship for Schizophrenia and
Allied Disorders (WFSAD).
Offers information in English,
Spanish, and French about schizophrenia
and allied disorders. Includes
a quarterly newsletter and other
publications, personal stories,
a recommended reading list, and
conference information.
- See MEDLINEplus.
Also see the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(AACAP) and
the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA).
- Co-Occurring
Center for Excellence (COCE).
Offers overview papers and technical
reports, presentations, research
reviews, bibliographies, case profiles,
and fact sheets about co-occurring
mental health concerns and substance
use disorders for health, education,
and social service professionals.
COCE is a service of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
- Family
Guide to Keeping Youth Mentally
Healthy and Drug-Free.
Offers articles and other resources
aimed at supporting the efforts
of parents and caregivers to promote
mental health and prevent the use
of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal
drugs among 7- to 18-year-olds.
The site presents information on
talking with children and adolescents,
getting involved, setting rules,
being a role model, teaching children
and adolescents to choose friends
wisely, and monitoring children's
and adolescents' activities.
- National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug
Information (NCADI).
Offers information about substance
abuse prevention and addiction
treatment. Materials for various
age and racial and ethnic groups
are available in English, Spanish,
and Asian languages. NCADI is a
service of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
A sample of recent publications
includes
American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian resource kit. (2007). This resource kit is designed for members of Native American communities with an interest in understanding, coping with, and preventing FASD.
Illicit drug use, by race/ethnicity, in metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties: 2004 and 2005. (2007).
- National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Offers program information and
publications for health professionals
and researchers about the health
aspects of drug abuse and addiction
to inform policy and improve practice.
Resources for parents, teachers,
students, and young adults include
fact sheets on specific drugs,
prevention curricula, reports,
and Spanish-language materials.
NIDA is a component of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
(SAMHDA).
Provides public data access and
online analysis of studies about
substance use and mental health,
including those that focus on children
and adolescents. SAMHDA is an initiative
of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
2006. Health
consequences of involuntary exposure
to tobacco smoke.
Rockville, MD: Office of the Surgeon
General. This report and supporting
materials describes the health consequences
of secondhand smoke exposure to infants,
children, adolescents, and adults.
Supporting materials include an executive
summary, a consumer booklet, fact
sheet series, and links to additional
resources about tobacco prevention
and treating tobacco use and dependence.
Also see an earlier Surgeon General's
report, Health
consequences of smoking (2004).
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
2007. Surgeon
General's call to action to prevent
and reduce underage drinking.
Rockville, MD: Office of the Surgeon
General. This report urges parents,
government, school officials and
communities to do more to prevent
underage drinking. The Call to Action
aims to foster changes in society
that facilitate healthy adolescent
development and that help prevent
and reduce underage drinking though
policy change, research, public health
surveillance, and engaging adolescents,
parents, schools, communities, and
systems that serve adolescents.
- Also see the Child
Trends DataBank; girlshealth.gov;
the National
Mental Health Information Center;
the Promising
Practices Network (PPN) on Children,
Families, and Communities;
the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA);
the Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance System
(YRBSS);
the National
Clearinghouse on Families and Youth
(NCFY) Literature Database; and
the National
Registry of Evidence-based Programs
and Practices (NREPP).
- Also see the reports, Health
and social impact of growing up with
alcohol abuse and related adverse
childhood experiences: The human
and economic costs of the status
quo (2006); Improving
the quality of health care for mental
and substance-use conditions (2006); Behavioral
health: An adolescent provider toolkit (2007);
and the guide, KySS
(Keep Your Children/Yourself Safe
and Secure) guide to child and adolescent
mental health screening, early intervention,
and health promotion (2006). See the Maternal and Child Health Library's organizations
resource list, Substance use.
- GET
HELP: National Suicide Prevention
Lifeline.
Telephone: (800) 273-TALK or (800)
273- 8255 (voice); (800) 799-4889
(TDD).
- National
Center for Injury Prevention and
Control (NCIPC): Suicide Prevention.
Offers fact sheets, program information,
definitions, and data about
suicide. Includes information about
suicide risk and protective factors,
consequences, prevention strategies,
and diffusion strategies. Resources
include
National Violent Death Reporting System. Collects data on violent deaths from a variety of sources, and provides insight into the optimal points for suicide intervention.
Suicide: Facts at a glance. (2007).
Suicide trends among youths and young adults aged 10-24 years -- United States, 1990-2004. (2007).
Understanding suicide. (2006).
Also see the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS).
- Suicide
Prevention Resource Center (SPRC).
Provides suicide prevention information,
training materials, and other resources
to assist organizations and individuals
with developing suicide prevention
programs, interventions, and policies,
and to advance the National
Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
Includes descriptions of and resources
from state efforts to prevent suicide.
SPRC is funded by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
Resources include
Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention. Presents program descriptions and contact information for suicide prevention programs that effectively address specific objectives of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
- Goldrick L. 2005. Youth
suicide prevention: Strengthening
state policies and school-based strategies.
Washington, DC: National
Governors Association.
This issue brief focuses on state
policies and school-based strategies
for preventing suicide among adolescents.
The brief provides an overview of
the problem; provides background;
and discusses the role of schools
in suicide prevention, state support
for suicide prevention programs,
and state suicide-prevention initiatives.
- Guild PA, Freeman VA.
2006. Promising
practices to prevent adolescent suicide:
What we can learn from Florida.
Chapel Hill, NC: Cecil
G. Sheps Center for Health Services
Research.
This paper about promising practices
in Florida to reduce adolescent suicide
includes a review of the national literature
and trends on adolescent suicide, rates
and trends for adolescent suicides
in Florida, suicide prevention activities
in Florida by nonprofit organizations
and government agencies, community
and school interventions, and health
system interventions.
- National
Adolescent Health Information Center
(NAHIC).
2006. Suicide:
Adolescents and young adults.
San Francisco, CA: National Adolescent
Health Information Center (NAHIC).
This fact sheet presents data about
suicide and suicide attempts by age,
gender, and racial and ethnic group.
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
1999. Surgeon
General's call to action to prevent
suicide.
Rockville, MD: Office of the Surgeon
General. This report outlines more
than a dozen steps that can be taken
by individuals, communities, organizations,
and policymakers to prevent suicide
in the United States. A fact
sheet about
suicide in children and adolescents
accompanies the report.
- World
Health Organization (WHO).
2002. World
report on violence and health.
Geneva, Switzerland: World Health
Organization. This report aims to
raise awareness about the problem
of violence globally, to make the
case that violence is preventable,
and to highlight the crucial role
that public health has to play in
addressing the causes and consequences
of violence. Chapter
7 provides
information about suicide, including
suicide among adolescents. The report
is available in several languages.
- See the National
Center for Mental Health Promotion
and Youth Violence Prevention publications
about suicide, How
schools can prevent suicide (2006)
and Recognizing
and responding to the warning signs
of suicide: A guide for teachers
and school staff (2006).
- Also see the American
Psychological Association (APA);
the Center
for School Mental Health (CSMH);
the Child
Trends DataBank; Facts
for Families;
and the report, Health
and social impact of growing up with
alcohol abuse and related adverse
childhood experiences: The human
and economic costs of the status
quo (2006).
Also see the section, Mood
Disorders (Depression, Bipolar Disorders).
- Tourette
Syndrome Association (TSA).
Presents conference and training
information and newsletters, articles,
curricula, videorecordings, and
other resources about Tourette
Syndrome.
- See MEDLINEplus.
Also see the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(AACAP).
Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges in Children and Adolescents:
Knowledge Path, 2nd ed. (October 2007). (Updated: July
2010).
Author: Susan Brune Lorenzo,
M.L.S., Maternal and Child Health Library.
Reviewers: Lauren Agoratus, M.A., parent
and New Jersey coordinator for Family Voices
and the Family-to-Family Health Information
Resource Center at the Statewide Parent
Advocacy Network; Michelle A. Beauchesne,
D.N.Sc., R.N., C.P.N.P., Northeastern University
School of Nursing; Jolene Bertness, M.Ed.,
Maternal and Child Health Library; Olivia
Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., Maternal and Child
Health Library.