Full Description
Use these system-of-care concepts to better serve children with serious emotional problems and their families!Providing services to children with emotional problems and their families continues to be a major challenge for social workers, family therapists, child mental health advocates, and psychologists in the new century. This valuable book addresses that challenge, detailing theory, principles, and application issues from the vantage points of both consumers and service providers. System-of-care values and practices were developed to address these concerns and meet the needs of these children and families, who tend to receive either no services at all or services that are far too restrictive, at a large cost to the organization providing the services.Child Mental Health: Exploring Systems of Care in the New Millennium identifies salient issues and offers suggestions for addressing the complexities of providing services for these troubled families. It also provides hope and encouragement for family members and professionals by identifying roles and practices that are effective in building collaborative community-based services.This book takes an incisive look at:
the benefits and difficulties of partnering between practitioners and families
the need for and benefits of partnering between practitioners of various disciplines within the system of care
a working model of a wraparound process (the hallmark of the system of care)
barriers that prevent effective wraparound services and what causes them
the need to help social workers learn parent partnering skills
the roles that families can play in the system of care
the need for specialized training so that practitioners can learn to assess, understand, and integrate a family's spiritual beliefs into the system of care
the development of an interdisciplinary, collaborative practice course at East Carolina University
experiential training and shared-classroom experiences for students
Child Mental Health: Exploring Systems of Care in the New Millennium is a tool that will aid practitioners and consumers alike as they shift their point of view from the provider-as-expert paradigm to one of building partnerships.
Contents
Contents
Foreword: Preparing Practitioners for an Evolving System of Care
Promoting Family Empowerment Through Multiple Roles
In Quest of an Interdisciplinary Helping Process Framework for Collaborative Practice in Systems of Care
Words Can Be Powerful: Changing the Words of Helping to Enhance Systems of Care
Challenges of Providing Interdisciplinary Mental Health Education
Including Families' Spiritual Beliefs and Their Faith Communities in Systems of Care
Service Learning and Systems of Care: Teaching Students to Learn from Clients
The Complexities of Implementing a Wraparound Approach to Service Provision: A View from the Field
Index
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