A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base. Proceedings of the Annual Research Conference (9th, Tampa, Florida, February 26-28, 1996).

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Accountability; Adolescents; Agency Cooperation; Children; Crisis Intervention; Delivery Systems; Elementary Secondary Education; Emotional Disturbances; Family Programs; Intervention; Mental Disorders; Mental Health; Mental Health Programs; Models; Needs Assessment; Program Evaluation; Research and Development; Research Methodology; Research Needs; Residential Programs; Systems Approach; Theory Practice Relationship

This proceedings document includes papers presented at a conference on children's mental health, systems of care, and research. Papers are grouped into 11 chapters which address the following topics: (1) program and system evaluations (nine papers); (2) managed care in children's mental health (six papers); (3) accountability and information systems (three papers); (4) evaluating wraparound services (two papers); (5) family perspectives (six papers); (6) interagency development and evaluation (seven papers); (7) crisis services and residential care (six papers); (8) service utilization and clinical issues (eleven papers); (9) school-based models (six papers); (10) assessment of service and training needs (five papers); and (11) instrumentation and methodology (thirteen papers). (Individual papers contain references.) (DB)

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