REACH’s mission is to get effective treatment to kids who need it now. There is a critical shortage of child psychiatrists and child psychologists, leaving millions of kids vulnerable to advancing emotional disorders before they get any help at all. One of the cornerstones of our program is training pediatricians to diagnose and treat emotional [...]
Why are we spending billions of dollars on costly, ineffective and even unsafe mental health interventions for children? I am referring to ineffective psychotherapies, disruptive out-of-home placements that may re-traumatize children, and inappropriate medication combinations? How does continuing these practices increase risk exposure to states and agencies that fund and provide them? Do we, collectively, [...]
In many ways, insurers, clinicians, and even consumers & families may have put the cart in front of the horse. What do I mean by that? Simply stated, across the country those looking for “quality” in children’s mental health services may be putting the quality cart up front, and flogging a weary horse to push [...]
October 11, 2009 – 3:12 pm
Advancing Children’s Mental Health: Structures, Incentives and Paradigms to Close the Research to Practice Gap * 41 million uninsured Americans exhibit consistently worse clinical outcomes than the insured, and are at increased risk for dying prematurely (Institute of Medicine, 2002; Institute of Medicine, 2003a) * The lag between the discovery of more effective forms of [...]
November 18, 2008 – 5:17 pm
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Twenty-fourth Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta, Georgia. At this remarkable meeting 200+ persons from across the US convened to revisit the progress that we have made as a country since Jane Knitzer’s seminal Unclaimed Children report over a quarter-century ago. This meeting [...]
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