TY - JOUR
T1 - Aligning dissemination and implementation science with health policies to improve children’s mental health.
AU - Hoagwood, Kimberly Eaton
AU - Purtle, Jonathan
AU - Spandorfer, Julia
AU - Peth-Pierce, Robin
AU - Horwitz, Sarah Mc Cue
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 American Psychological Association
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The prevalence of mental health problems among children (ages 0–21) in the United States remains unacceptably high and, post-COVID-19, is expected to increase dramatically. Decades of psychological knowledge about effective treatments should inform the delivery of better services. Dissemination and implementation (D&I) science has been heralded as a solution to the persistent problem of poor quality services and has, to some extent, improved our understanding of the contexts of delivery systems that implement effective practices. However, there are few studies demonstrating clear, population-level impacts of psychological interventions on children. Momentum is growing among communities, cities, states, and some federal agencies to build “health in all policies” to address broad familial, social, and economic factors known to affect children’s healthy development and mental health. These health policy initiatives offer a rare opportunity to repurpose D&I science, shifting it from a primary focus on evidence-based practice implementation, to a focus on policy development and implementation to support child and family health and well-being. This shift is critical as states develop policy responses to address the health and mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on already-vulnerable families. We provide a typology for building research on D&I and children’s mental health policy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)Public Significance Statement—The prevalence of mental health problems among children remains unacceptably high. Communities, cities, states, and some federal agencies are building “health in all policies” initiatives that address broad familial, social, and economic factors known to affect children’s healthy development. These initiatives offer a rare opportunity to repurpose D&I science and shift it from a primary focus on evidence-based practice implementation, to a focus on policy dissemination and implementation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
AB - The prevalence of mental health problems among children (ages 0–21) in the United States remains unacceptably high and, post-COVID-19, is expected to increase dramatically. Decades of psychological knowledge about effective treatments should inform the delivery of better services. Dissemination and implementation (D&I) science has been heralded as a solution to the persistent problem of poor quality services and has, to some extent, improved our understanding of the contexts of delivery systems that implement effective practices. However, there are few studies demonstrating clear, population-level impacts of psychological interventions on children. Momentum is growing among communities, cities, states, and some federal agencies to build “health in all policies” to address broad familial, social, and economic factors known to affect children’s healthy development and mental health. These health policy initiatives offer a rare opportunity to repurpose D&I science, shifting it from a primary focus on evidence-based practice implementation, to a focus on policy development and implementation to support child and family health and well-being. This shift is critical as states develop policy responses to address the health and mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on already-vulnerable families. We provide a typology for building research on D&I and children’s mental health policy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)Public Significance Statement—The prevalence of mental health problems among children remains unacceptably high. Communities, cities, states, and some federal agencies are building “health in all policies” initiatives that address broad familial, social, and economic factors known to affect children’s healthy development. These initiatives offer a rare opportunity to repurpose D&I science and shift it from a primary focus on evidence-based practice implementation, to a focus on policy dissemination and implementation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
KW - children
KW - implementation science
KW - mental health
KW - policy-making
KW - psychological science
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U2 - 10.1037/amp0000706
DO - 10.1037/amp0000706
M3 - Article
C2 - 33252950
AN - SCOPUS:85097037284
VL - 75
SP - 1130
EP - 1145
JO - American Psychologist
JF - American Psychologist
SN - 0003-066X
IS - 8
ER -