A Collaboratively Designed Child Mental Health Service Model

A stepped-care model of post-disaster child and adolescent mental health service provision

BACKGROUND From a global perspective, natural disasters are common events. Published research highlights that a significant minority of exposed children and adolescents develop disaster-related mental health syndromes and associated functional impairment. Consistent with the considerable unmet need of children and adolescents with regard to psychopathology, there is strong evidence that many ch...

Child psychiatric disorders among primary mental health service attenders.

The aim of this study was to establish the range of psychiatric disorders and psychiatric comorbidity among children and adolescents attending a primary mental health service (PMHS). The main psychiatric diagnostic categories were: oppositional defiant disorders (ODDs) (75.3%), anxiety disorders (36.1%), mood disorders (35.1%), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHDs) (28.9%). The ...

The effect of a program designed based on PRECEDE-PROCEED model on adolescents’ mental health and their parents’ participation

Background: Parents have high motivation to provide mental health promotion for their adolescents, but cannot treat them effectively due to the lack of knowledge and an organized model to do accordingly. Aim: To evaluate the effect of an educational program based on PRECEDE- PROCEED  Model on adolescents’ mental health and their parents’ participation. Method: The study was a randomized control...

Infant mental health needs a model of service delivery.

IACAPAP Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Section A INTRODUCTION TO CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH