Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders 2005 Series Volume 2: A Training Guide for the Early Childhood Services Community, Volume 1
SAMHSA recognizes the critical role of child care providers in facilitating a young child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development in collaboration with the child’s parent and significant caretakers. Increasingly, child care providers report difficulty working with children who are experiencing multiple challenges. Mental health consultants, trained to work with young children and their families, can serve as important resources to help the child care provider find effective ways to work with these children. A Training Guide for the Early Childhood Services Community offers a guide for trainers to use when teaching the early childhood community how to use the blueprint.
more... The Courage to Remember: Childhood Traumatic Grief Curriculum Guide
The material presented in The Courage to Remember companion guide (CD-Rom to be published in latter 2008) represents the results of significant advances in the field of childhood traumatic grief and the unique collaboration of researchers and clinicians in academic and community settings throughout the country. This guide has been developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network using extensive expert involvement and commentary. Although the focus of these training materials is on individual work with school-age children and teens, additional information and resources are provided regarding work with young children and groups. The materials provide specific guidelines and options for interventions to (1) educate care providers about childhood traumatic grief, (2) introduce others to principles of treatment that have been identified as helpful in treating the condition, and (3) offer practitioners an opportunity to enhance their treatment skills.
more... Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health: Strengthening Parenting and Enhancing Child Resilience
Reviews effectiveness of programs that use a strength-based family approach to promoting mental wellness and preventing mental health problems among at-risk children and youth and makes recommendations related to the expanded uses of such programs.
more... NASC Community Kit: What a Difference a Friend Makes CD
As a local partner in mental health anti-stigma efforts, you know the important role acceptance plays in recovery. These public service announcements (PSAs) can help. Created by SAMHSA and Ad Council, the ads encourage 18-25 year olds to be the first step in a friend's recovery. They have already been distributed to more than 25,000 public service directors around the country, but you can help spread the word locally!
more... Participatory Dialogues: A Guide to Organizing Interactive Discussions on Mental Health Issues among Consumers, Providers, and Family Members
It describes the benefits of dialogue meetings and provides easy-to-follow detailed specific action steps on how states, local communities, providers, managed care organizations, advocates, family members and consumers can organize meetings to develop working partnerships to improve mental health service delivery. The goal is to bring all stakeholders together on a level playing field and to develop the kinds of partnerships that are needed to improve mental health services.
more... Building Bridges Mental Health Consumers and Representatives of the Disaster Response Community in Dialogue
This publication highlights recommendations and identified opportunities for improved disaster responses to people with mental illnesses. These came from a facilitated roundtable meeting in August of 2006 that brought together twenty mental health consumers, policymakers, providers and others involved in the disaster response community who shared their experiences, perspectives and insight.
more... Helping Children and Youth with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
This fact sheet provides basic information on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and describes an approach to getting services and supports, called “systems of care,” that helps children, youth, and families thrive at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.
more... Helping Children and Youth with Bipolar Disorder
This fact sheet provides basic information on bipolar disorder in children and describes an approach to getting services and supports, called “systems of care,” that helps children, youth, and families thrive at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.
more... Helping Children and Youth with Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
This fact sheet provides basic information on conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder in children and describes an approach to getting services and supports, called “systems of care,” that helps children, youth, and families thrive at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.
more... Helping Children and Youth with Major Depression: Systems of Care
This fact sheet provides basic information on major depression in children and describes an approach to getting services and supports, called “systems of care,” that helps children, youth, and families thrive at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.
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