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Annotation: This project aimed to reduce the incidence of poor health characteristics among low-income, culturally diverse populations by promoting the involvement of primary care physicians (pediatricians) in early screening and intervention. Project goals included increasing the level of preventive health care for underserved children, reducing the severity of psychosocial problems, increasing physicians' sense of involvement as part of a team in providing services to project children and their families, and demonstrating a practical process for accomplishing these goals which can be replicated across the nation. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: American Academy of Pediatrics, Child Abuse and Neglect Preventive, Continuing Education, Developmentally Delayed/Disabled, EPSDT, Hawaiians, Health Care, Health Supervision Guidelines, High risk children, Low income groups, Medicaid, Primary Care, Psychological Problems, Well Child Care

Annotation: These five modules and accompanying guides for primary care health professionals provide information and resources on early brain development, toxic stress, adverse childhood experiences, supporting parents and cultivating community relationships, and advocacy. Each module includes a PowerPoint presentation with presenter notes and a guide with tips for presenting the content. Each module also contains activities, video clips, prompting questions, and case studies to encourage active participation.

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Keywords: Advocacy, Brain, Cognitive development, Early childhood development, Emotional development, Mental health, Parent support services, Primary care, Psychological development, Relationships, Stress, Training, Vulnerability

Annotation: This brief is designed to help families find mental health care, services, and support and websites about emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges in kids and teens. A separate section presents websites about babies and young kids. Another lists websites for teens. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adolescents, Affective disorders, Behavior development, Behavior disorders, Bibliographies, Children, Electronic publications, Emotional development, Family support services, Mental health, Psychological needs, Social behavior

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Keywords: Enrollment, Health insurance, Health reform, Mental disorders, Mental health, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Psychological needs

Annotation: This report provides information about best practices in therapeutic or treatment foster care (TFC), a clinical intervention for youth from birth to age 18 who have severe mental, emotional, or behavioral health needs. Topics include essential partners; building relationships among provider agencies and child advocates; example practices in Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska; efforts to expand the focus beyond safety and permanency to well-being for youth in therapeutic foster care; and public policy challenges.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Adolescents with special health care needs, Advocacy, Behavioral medicine, Children with special health care needs, Foster care, Foster parents, Health services delivery, Intervention, Medically fragile children, Mental health, Policy development, Psychological needs, Reimbursement, Relationships, Therapeutics, Training, Trauma care, Youth

Annotation: This electronic resource presents guidelines to help adults match a child's physical and mental abilities with the requirements of different agricultural jobs. They are intended to help reduce childhood agricultural injuries. Topics include animal care, manual labor, implement and haying operations, tractor fundamentals, and other tasks. Some of the guidelines are available in Spanish.

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Keywords: Agricultural injuries, Child safety, Guidelines, Injury prevention, Motor development, Occupational safety and health, Psychological development, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This final report describes a project to reduce the morbidity associated with pediatric traffic-related injury by identifying the key risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in injured children and their parents and incorporating this knowledge into new diagnostic and treatment strategies. Report sections include an executive summary; an introduction into the nature of the research problem including objectives and hypotheses, maternal and child health program priorities addressed by the project, the purpose, scope, and methods used; a review of the literature; study design and methods; presentation of findings; a discussion of the findings including conclusions, limitations, comparisons, applications, policy implications, and suggestions for future research; and a list of products from the project. References are provided at the conclusion of the report along with sample Screening Tool for Early Predictors of PTSD (STEPP) as an appendix. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Child mental health, Children, Final reports, MCH research, Motor vehicle injuries, Parents, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Psychological evaluation, Research, Screening, Traffic injuries

Annotation: This publication discusses the interaction of the genotype with socioeconomic, environmental, and psychological factors in the fetal and postnatal environment that contribute to an individual's health or susceptibility to disease. Report contents include the strategic planning process, goals and objectives, scope of the plan, scientific context and opportunities, research priorities, infrastructure priorities, and priority methodology and policy issues. The appendix includes the roster of advisors.

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Keywords: Congenital abnormalities, Environmental health, Genetics, Hereditary diseases, Morbidity, Mortality, Patient education materials, Psychological needs, Socioeconomic factors

Annotation: These conference proceedings are from the Dentists C.A.R.E. (Child Abuse Recognition and Education) Conference held in 1998 in Chicago, Illinois. Included are presentations on the following aspects of child abuse: clinical signs of child abuse and neglect specific to dentistry; forensic dentistry and case management; legal and liability issues related to reporting suspected abuse; ethical issues related to child abuse and family violence; psychological and patient management considerations in treating pediatric patients; dentistry's interventions and perspectives in preventing child abuse and neglect; the American Medical Association's perspective; and family violence as a public health issue. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adolescents, Case management, Child abuse, Child neglect, Child protective services, Children, Coalitions, Conference proceedings, Dentists, Ethics, Family violence, Legal responsibility, Liability, Oral health, Parents, Psychological needs

Annotation: This report presents an examination of the association between psychological functioning and substance use among adolescents aged 12 to 17 using data from the 1994-1996 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). The survey, conducted annually by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), provides estimates of the prevalence of use of a variety of illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, based on a nationally representative sample of the civilian non institutionalized population. In addition, the 1994-1996 surveys include mental health data not previously available. This publication was developed by the National Opinion Research Center.

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Keywords: Adolescent mental health, Adolescents, Health surveys, National surveys, Psychological development, Psychological evaluation, Substance abuse

Annotation: This report is a summary of an extensive review of more than 3,000 research articles and other materials in the field of mental health. Chapter 1 is an overview of the themes in the report and includes copies of the conclusions from the chapters that follow. Chapter 2 is titled the Fundamentals of Mental Health and Mental Illness. It discusses the structure of the brain, the etiology and epidemiology of mental illness, physical and psychological development, risk factors and prevention, mental health services, and cultural diversity as a factor in treatment and response. Chapter 3 is about children and mental health. It examines normal development, risk factors and prevention, mental disorders in children, and health service delivery. Chapter 4 discusses adults and mental health, and chapter 5 focuses on older adults. The topic of Chapter 6 is organizing and financing mental health services. Chapter 7 deals with ethical, legal, and policy issues in the confidentiality of mental health information. Chapter 8 proposes broad courses of action to remove barriers that prevent people from obtaining mental health treatment.

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Keywords: Adolescents, Adults, Attitudes, Children, Confidentiality, Cultural diversity, Epidemiology, Ethics, Etiology, Health care financing, Legal issues, Mental disorders, Mental health, Mental health services, Models, Older adults, Physical development, Prevention, Psychological development, Public opinion, Reports, Risk factors, Service delivery

Annotation: This book for parents outlines six core stages to promote intelligence and emotional growth from birth to preschool. The stages are described in each chapter: (1) becoming calm, attentive, and interested in the world; (2) falling in love; (3) becoming a two-way communicator; (4) solving problems and forming a sense of self; (5) discovering a world of ideas; and (6) building bridges between ideas. Additional chapters include techniques such as "floor-time", nurturing all six levels of intelligence and emotional health at the same time, and giving more and expecting more, the concluding chapter on building on the six stages and challenging the child in further development. The appendices contain a functional developmental growth chart and questionnaire; the six essential developmental stages and the growth of the brain; and ten ways to environmentally childproof your home. The book concludes with an index.

Keywords: Child development, Communication skills, Consumer education materials, Developmental stages, Environmental health, Infant development, Nonverbal communication, Parent child relations, Parenting, Psychological health, Young children

Annotation: This program: (1) Offered direct interventions with infants and their biological and foster families; (2) created a partnership between the private-sector Edgewood Children's Center and the public-sector SFDSS; (3) supported SFDSS Baby Moms and Licensing Unit staff in recruiting foster homes that were racially similar to the population of infants being served and that are located in San Francisco; (4) increased the medical and developmental knowledge of newly recruited Baby Moms foster parents by organizing monthly training and support meetings; (5) assessed the medical and developmental status of 100 percent of Baby Moms infants; and (6) continued psychological assessments of foster parent applicants. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Children with Special Health care Needs, Developmental Evaluation, Early Intervention, Foster Care, Foster Children, Psychological Evaluation, Public Private Partnerships

Annotation: This book discusses the psychological components that accompany adolescent parenthood. The author examines the effect of personal histories as well as broader social factors such as poverty and violence in shaping the psychological development of a adolescent parent. Specific chapters focus on topics such as adolescent psychosocial development, intervention programs, and adolescents as parents.

Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Adolescents, Mental health, Psychological factors, Psychosocial development

Annotation: This manual provides key information about the young child and family emotional health as it relates to using the AIMS (Attachment, Interaction, Mastery, Support) Developmental Indicators of Emotional Health. The topics are: (1) the sociocultural background of health care providers as they relate to emotional health, and why AIMS was developed, and how it can improve professional practice; (2) what professionals need to know about early childhood emotional development and the psychology of parenthood and parent child relationships; (3) basic professional skills needed to make use of the guidelines; (4) additional issues of social change and policy; and (5) encouragement to the users. The manual also contains a bibliography and an appendix containing AIMS forms, the AIMS instrument, and professional guidelines. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Child mental health, Early intervention, Emotional development, Infant care, Psychological needs, Psychosocial development

Annotation: This manual provides training material for the AIMS: Developmental Indicators of Emotional Health program. The AIMS materials are designed to be used by professionals in child health supervision in physician's offices, well child clinics, and early intervention screening situations. The topics for the training program are: introduction to the infant mental health field and the emotional development of children ages zero to five; clinical assessment; observational skills; interviewing skills; therapeutic communication skills; attachment problems/failure to thrive; temperament issues/colic; attention deficit disorder; teen pregnancy and parenting; and child abuse. Also included in the manual are a sample of the filled-in AIMS instrument, a seminar evaluation form, and overheads. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: At risk children, Child mental health, Community based services, Data collection, Early intervention, Emotional development, Infant care, Parent child relations, Psychological needs, Psychosocial development, Screening, Service coordination

Annotation: This book reports on a research study of the psychodynamics of pregnancy and their effect on the infant. It provides information on the behavioral aspect of pregnancy: problems associated with pregnancy, family dynamics, and infant and parent well-being. It discusses background variables, pregnancy adaptation, expectant fathers, maternal adaptation, prenatal counseling, postpartum disorders, infantile colic, dimensions of infant behavior, and the effects of infant temperament and sex on maternal behavior. It ends with appendices on evaluations during the prenatal and postnatal periods, a compendium of factor scales, initial factor analyses, and statistical tables.

Keywords: Attachment behavior, Father child relations, Infant behavior, Maternal mental health, Mother child relations, Parenting attitudes, Pregnant women, Psychological characteristics, Research

Annotation: The purpose of this book is to provide the pediatrician with up-to-date information and resources to assume a role in the treatment of children with mental retardation. The contents discuss mental retardation from the perspectives of diagnosis and evaluation, health services, genetic considerations, metabolic aspects, community services, residential care, legal considerations, psychological aspects, speech and language development, educational aspects, psychiatric considerations, nursing services, nutrition, physical therapy, and counseling.

Keywords: Children, Community programs, Counseling, Diagnosis, Evaluation, Genetics, Health services, Language development, Legal issues, Mental retardation, Metabolic diseases, Nursing services, Nutrition, Pediatricians, Physical therapy, Psychological characteristics, Residential care, Speech development

Annotation: The purpose of this report was to report data on the prevalence of mental defect in a rural population, to analyze the social conditions surrounding mentally defective children, and to investigate the extent of need for public provision for their care. The report lists 17 general conclusions including the finding that the state must make provision for mentally defective children whose families can not give them the care and protection necessary. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

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Keywords: Children, Disabilities, Institutionalization, Medical evaluation, Mental disorders, Mental retardation, Psychological evaluation, Rural health, Social factors