In this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, Rupinder K. Legha, and Michelle P. Durham bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Home and Community Based Services for Youth and Families in Crisis. Top experts in the field discuss strategies to empower pediatric communities and their families in times of crisis, by optimizing community partnership with preventative and crisis response interventions for de-escalation and stabilization, expanding financial supports for community and home based mental health services; promoting community oriented emergency psychiatry and mobile crisis service delivery; and promoting local, state, and federal policy intervention for systems of care that focus on the collective health and well-being in environments of children and their families.
- Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including federal, state, and local mental health policy interventions in response to the pediatric mental health crisis from the COVID pandemic; trauma-informed response and prevention of mental health crisis in schools using a Culturally Responsive, Antiracist and Equitable (CARE) framework; coordinated systems of care approaches for pediatric emergency and crisis stabilization, mobile treatment, and wraparound services; integrating the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) Trauma Informed Framework in inpatient, day treatment, partial hospitalization, residential, and community based treatment settings; understanding the social and structural determinants for special populations related to suicide prevention in the BIPOC and LGBTQI communities; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on home and community based services for youth and families in crisis, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Table of Contents
Reimagining the CARE in Systems to Combat the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis in America: A Healing-Centered ApproachFederal, State, and Local Mental Health Policy Interventions in Response to the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis following the COVID-19 Pandemic
Using a Culturally Responsive, Antiracist, and Equitable Approach to School Mental Health
Justice-Involved Youth: Support for Community and Family Interventions
The Child Welfare System’s Response to the National Mental Health Crisis
Addressing the Multidimensional Aspects of Trauma in Emergency Department Boarding for Neurodiverse Youth
Coordinated System of Care Approaches for Pediatric Emergency and Crisis Stabilization, Mobile Treatment, and Wraparound Services
Integrating the Attachment, Regulation, and Competency Trauma-Informed Framework in Inpatient, Day Treatment, Partial Hospitalization, and Residential Treatment Settings
Early Intervention in the Treatment of Psychosis
Understanding the Social Drivers for LGBTQIAD Youth Suicide
Home, School, and Community-based Services for Forcibly Displaced Youth and Their Families
The Role of the Medical Director and Psychiatric Medical Director in Child Welfare Serving Agencies
An Assertive Community Intervention to Engage Youth with Opioid Use Disorder and Their Families
Rural and Frontier Communities
Youth Engagement Synergy in Mental Health Legislation and Programming
Skills Needed in Psychiatrist Leadership for Building and Sustaining Child Mental Health Systems of Care
Authors
Kimberly Gordon Achebe Assistant ProfessorDivision of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Department of Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA, USA. Rupinder K. Legha Co-Founder
Antiracist Healing Collaborative
Los Angeles, CA, USA. Michelle P. Durham Chief Behavioral Health Officer,
Ibn Sina Foundation, Houston,
TX, USA
Adjunct Clinical Associate
Professor, Boston University,
Boston, MA, USA.
