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Annotation: This monograph summarizes the discussion, findings, and recommendations stemming from a children's mental health conference held in November 1998 with follow up dialog over the next year. Contents include a review of the child and adolescent mental health landscape, mental health screening of children and diagnosis in primary care settings, efficacy and effectiveness, managed care and children's mental health, and the approach to systems of care. Implications for action and recommendations for children's mental health service research, practice, and policy for five years is also included. Additional sections provide a historian's view from the future, references, and a list of contributors.

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Keywords: Adolescent mental health, Children's mental health, Conferences, Health services delivery, Managed care, Primary care, Screening, Systems of care

Annotation: This report summarizes planned mental health and substance abuse services and activities in the Title XXI State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

Keywords: Adolescent mental health, Child mental health, Mental health services, Plans, State Children's Health Insurance Program, State MCH programs, States, Substance abuse treatment services

Annotation: This book addresses child advocacy as a process that seeks to champion the right of all children and to make every child's needs known and met. The text is directed at analyzing the alienation of children from supportive environments that are vital to children's psychological and social development. Advocacy is viewed as a process that seeks to champion the rights of all children and to make every child's needs known and met. The contents include a discussion of the emergence of child advocacy at the national level, child advocacy as the National Institute of Mental Health's highest priority, the 1971 White House Conference on Children, advocacy models in North Carolina, a definition of child advocacy in the 1990s, the ecological theory of advocacy, the advocacy needs of children, the purpose of advocacy, proactive advocacy, a case study of advocacy, university and community collaboration, a parent training approach, a child advocacy commission model, developing local advocacy councils, advocacy in the treatment and education of adjudicated children, and delivery of services through boards for children in trouble.

Keywords: Child advocacy, Child welfare, Children, Children's rights, Collaboration, Communities, Conferences, High risk children, History, Local MCH programs, National Institute of Mental Health, North Carolina, Parent education, Universities

Annotation: This issue of "The Future of Children" focuses on the impact of managed health care arrangements for children. The topics discussed are managed care's effect on access to care and utilization of services, the quality of children's health services, the impact of state regulation of managed care, Medicaid managed care, improving state Medicaid contracts and plan practices for children with special needs, the impact of managed care on mental health services for children and their families, and defining the challenge and opportunities for children in managed health care. Also addressed in this issue are the topics of missing children and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Child health services, Child welfare, Children, Children with special health care needs, Contract services, Managed care, Medicaid managed care, Mental health services, Missing children, Public policy, Quality assurance, State Children's Health Insurance Program, State MCH programs

Annotation: These proceedings discuss the establishment of guidelines for practicing dentists on dental care for children with mental retardation. This document defines mental retardation clinics and discusses their status and their legal basis. Discussions of the committee about maternity and infant care projects comprise the majority of the document. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adults, Children, Children with developmental disabilities, Children's Bureau, Clinics, Federal MCH programs, Guidelines, Maternity and Infant Care Projects, Mental retardation, Oral health, Oral health care, Parents

Annotation: This report shows how the states have used the special maternal and child health grant-in-aid funds from the Bureau, consultation, and existing resources to begin to fill the gap in health services to mentally retarded children. The report does not address the program activities of the division of Social Services in regard to mentally retarded children and their families. A historical frame of reference is provided, followed by a list of program achievements, special demonstration projects, a report of the Children's Bureau Technical Committee on Clinical Programs, and a discussion of mental retardation and the future. A report of children served by mental retardation programs under state health departments for 1958, 1959, and 1960 is an appendix.

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Keywords: Children, Children's Bureau, Health services, Mental retardation