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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"System of care"”.
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Architecting the future telebehavioral health system of care in the United States Army
Charged by the Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, the authors were members of a study to develop innovative recommendations for transforming the military enterprise to better manage post-traumatic stress and related conditions in support of service members and their families. The authors first …
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Parent/Professional Perceptions of Collaboration When Viewed in the Context of Virginia's Comprehensive Services Act System of Care
In 1992,Virginia created a system of care that was designed to address the needs of troubled youth and their families. Known as the Comprehensive Services Act, the legislation mandated that family and service system interactions were intended to be child-centered, family-focused, and collaborative …
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The strength of youth voice: understanding the influence of youth strength-perspectives on desired outcomes for youth enrolled in system-of-care services
… accompanied by rhetoric around the importance of including youth and families in service planning and delivery, and attending to youth strengths in addition to pathology. However, within this treatment context, both in research and practice, many continue to prioritize adult perspectives of …
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Take my breath away: The role of social norms and power in promoting wellness within a system of care for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Organizational Culture in Children's Mental Health Systems of Care
… & James, 2006). Although isolated studies of organizational culture have been conducted in individual agencies (child welfare and juvenile justice), no study has examined the organization culture of successful, holistic systems of care that involve the coordination of multiple agencies, …
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Crossover Kids: Maltreatment Experiences, Subsequent Maladjustment, and Systems of Care
… (12-16) who have experienced the Child Welfare System (CWS) are more likely to be involved in early criminal and delinquent behaviour. These youth who are involved in this system of care are more likely than youth in the general population to “crossover” into another system of care - The Youth …
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(Im)possible childhoods: contesting healthcare for gender and sex diverse youth
… and Scotland. Recent years have been a time of profound challenge to traditional ideas about gender and identity. Young people have been developing increasingly diverse ways of thinking about and expressing gender. At the same time there has been a proliferation in the number of young people …
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Severity of Illness Among Police-Escorted Psychiatric Emergency Room Patients Before and After the Implementation of a Regional, Public-Sector Managed Behavioral Health Care Program
Managed behavioral health care organizations are growing, but the clinical impact of managed care policies is largely unknown. The following study examines the clinical characteristics of police-escorted patients seen in the psychiatric emergency room of a large public hospital in metropolitan …
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One Hospital’s Journey to Create a Culture of Safety
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports in 1999, To Err is Human – Building a Safer Health System and 2001, Crossing the Quality Chasm sought to transform the culture of American hospitals. The culture of blame needed to become a culture of safety if we were ever to reduce and prevent errors and …
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A Comparison of Patient Satisfaction in Traditional Emergency Department Triage and Fast Track Triage Systems of Care
… who used the Emergency Department (ED) services of a 475 bed, midwestern teaching hospital were surveyed to determine patient satisfaction before and after implementation of a fast track system of care. Respondents were asked to return a mailed questionnaire which solicited responses using a …
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UNDERSTANDING SERVICE UTILIZATION WITHIN CO-OCCURRING POPULATION
<p>A specialized system of care for co-occurring clients can be an asset to this population, if the services offered deliver adequate results that contribute to the overall wellbeing of this community. Therefore, providers, including social workers and other professionals to determine the …
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Making It Work: Small-Town System Building in Homelessness Service
… skirted ownership, the American tradition of localism prevailed, and in the early 1980s homelessness services were developed by non-profit entrepreneurs quite separate from existing systems of health and social services. Within a decade, federal intervention began to suggest—and then …
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Examining individual, family, and community predictors of youth receipt of therapy in systems of care
Though a variety of psychotherapy interventions have been empirically supported for youth, the majority of children and adolescents with mental health needs do not receive therapy services to treat their disorder. This study examines the predictors of receipt of therapy services for youth within …
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Therapeutic Mentoring: Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care
<p>This study examined the impact of therapeutic mentoring on youth in foster care. Youth outcomes on the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) measure for four groups of youth were compared. Three treatment groups were divided based on the amount of therapeutic mentoring received and …
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A Needs Assessment of Communicare's Children Mental Health Services
<p>This document is a review of literature on needs assessments and the benefits of conducting one. Communicare is a mental health agency that serves the Lincoln Trail Region. Currently, most of the revenue from their children programs comes from Medicaid, which is a fee-for-services payer source. …
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Psychological Services for Pediatric Victims of Non Accidental Trauma
… were approximately 1,560 fatalities as a result of child abuse; 17.6% of those deaths were the direct result of physical abuse and 80% occurred in children under the age of 4. There is a dearth of research examining severe physical abuse among children and, as a result, the demographics of this …
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Evaluating Integrated Care in Primary Care Clinics in Rural and Frontier Colorado by Uncovering Barriers to Behavioral Health Referrals: A Mixed Methods Investigation
Healthcare reform is happening nationally at a rapid pace. A part of this rapid reform is the implementation of integrated care delivery systems. This mixed-methods study identified those clinical and practice barriers that affect referrals from primary care to behavioral health services. A …
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Psychosocial care of people with cancer : the 'victim's' perspective
… This phenomenon disturbs the logic of two facts: that people with cancer do experience psychosocial problems, and that most interventions are capable of alleviating psychological distress and improving quality of life. This dissertation approached the above problem using a …
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Reducing Non-urgent Utilization Of The Emergency Department By Self-pay Patients: Analysis Of The Impact Of A Community-wide Provider Network
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a coordinated and comprehensive system of care for the uninsured changed the behavior of the uninsured by decreasing non-urgent utilization of the emergency departments within a large, urban county. The literature on emergency department trends and …
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An ordinary house on an ordinary street : a community-based alternative model for housing the aged in South Africa
… for the aged, without admitting them to the care of total institutions. Ordinary houses on ordinary streets are converted into neighbourhood old age homes in which a small number of elderly people live together. The home may be sponsored by any body, and, other than the cost of purchasing the …
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