Child and Adolescent Services Research Program
Overview
This program includes research on the quality, organization, and content of services for children with mental disorders and their families. The program focuses on child mental health services provided in multiple sectors and settings, such as schools, primary care, child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health. Program emphases include practice research within child service systems, research testing the outcomes of innovative child service delivery models, and studies that examine the adaptability or sustainability of child mental health services.
Areas of Emphasis
- Studies that expand upon documented levels of unmet child mental health needs to investigate how these needs should be successfully addressed.
- Research that attempts to define, characterize or operationalize current child mental health practice, particularly within non-traditional systems (such as education, child welfare, juvenile justice, primary care).
- Research on the impact of family engagement and choices regarding the acceptability of interventions.
- Studies of factors that may influence the adaptability or sustainability of child mental health services (such as pharmacological, psychosocial, preventive) in real-world settings.
Contact
Agnes Rupp, Ph.D.
Program Chief
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 7146, MSC 9631
301-443-3364, arupp@mail.nih.gov
