TY - JOUR
T1 - A collaboratively designed child mental health service model
T2 - Multiple family groups for urban children with conduct difficulties
AU - McKay, Mary M.
AU - Gopalan, Geetha
AU - Franco, Lydia
AU - Dean-Assael, Kara
AU - Chacko, Anil
AU - Jackson, Jerrold M.
AU - Fuss, Ashley
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - This article presents preliminary outcomes associated with an experimental, longitudinal study of a Multiple Family Group (MFG) service delivery approach set within 13 urban outpatient clinics serving children and their families living in inner-city, primarily African American and Latino communities. Specifically, this article focuses on parent reports of child oppositional behavior and parenting stress over time. The MFG is a flexible, protocol-driven approach designed to address the most common reason for referral to outpatient child mental health clinics, childhood behavioral difficulties. The MFG also aims to enhance family-level engagement and retention in ongoing care. Further, the service delivery model was collaboratively developed with intensive input from parents rearing children with conduct difficulties, parent advocates, community-based child mental health providers, and services research staff in order to ultimately expand the number of effective service models that can be situated within "real world," urban child mental health settings.
AB - This article presents preliminary outcomes associated with an experimental, longitudinal study of a Multiple Family Group (MFG) service delivery approach set within 13 urban outpatient clinics serving children and their families living in inner-city, primarily African American and Latino communities. Specifically, this article focuses on parent reports of child oppositional behavior and parenting stress over time. The MFG is a flexible, protocol-driven approach designed to address the most common reason for referral to outpatient child mental health clinics, childhood behavioral difficulties. The MFG also aims to enhance family-level engagement and retention in ongoing care. Further, the service delivery model was collaboratively developed with intensive input from parents rearing children with conduct difficulties, parent advocates, community-based child mental health providers, and services research staff in order to ultimately expand the number of effective service models that can be situated within "real world," urban child mental health settings.
KW - children and youth
KW - collaborative research
KW - longitudinal study
KW - mental health services
KW - multiple family group
KW - outcomes
KW - prevention programs
KW - urban families
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U2 - 10.1177/1049731511406740
DO - 10.1177/1049731511406740
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80054759786
SN - 1049-7315
VL - 21
SP - 664
EP - 674
JO - Research on Social Work Practice
JF - Research on Social Work Practice
IS - 6
ER -