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Blumenthal SJ, ed. 1994. Papers and abstracts from the symposium on women's mental health: Issues for the 90s. Journal of Women's Health 3(6):453-497,

Annotation: This reprint contains papers and abstracts focusing on various issues in women's mental health. The papers were originally prepared for a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in San Francisco, May 25, 1993. The papers focus on gender differences as a contributing factor to other conditions such as: the effect of gender differences on the incidence and prevalence of mental disorders, on the biological and psychosocial factors, on treatment, and on the cause of those differences; on the relations between gender and personality development and psychopathology; on women and depression; on panic disorders and women; and on eating disorders.

Keywords: Conferences, Depression, Eating disorders, Gender bias, Mental disorders, Mental health, Panic disorder, Personality development, Sex role, Treatment, Women

Burchard JD, Burchard SN, Sewell R, VanDenBerg J. 1993. One kid at a time: Evaluative case studies and description of the Alaska Youth Initiative Demonstration Project. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Child Development Center, National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, 194 pp.

Annotation: This report describes how the Alaskan Youth Initiative works with troubled children in a community setting, using a case manager, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, foster homes, and other residential settings, and involving the parents and school personnel so that the young person has individualized, continuing acceptance and attention to his needs. Several case studies illustrate the problems the child had, often being in and out of mental hospitals, and continued to have as the AYI workers struggled to set up a system to meet his needs, then the gradual progress, including what worked and what didn't.

Keywords: Adolescent mental health, Affective disorders, Alaska, Case management, Case studies, Child mental health, Child welfare, Community based services, Foster care, Interagency cooperation, Personality disorders, Psychoses, Service coordination, Service delivery

Lourie IS, Katz-Leavy J. 1985. Severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Child Development Center, National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, 39 pp.

Annotation: This document discusses the classification of chronically emotionally disturbed children who need innovative, flexible child-centered and family-centered long-term community care. It estimates the size of this population. It discusses the services available, and the need for a continuum of care and interagency cooperation to maintain the child in the least restrictive environment, with support and therapeutic services overseen by a case manager. The aim is for the child to function in the home, community and school. Finally the paper discusses how these goals fit into the Child and Adolescent System Services Program of the National Institute of Mental Health as administered by the states.

Keywords: Affective disorders, Case management, Community care, Family centered care, Interagency cooperation, Personality disorders, Residential programs, State mental health agencies, State programs
   

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