Home and Community Based Services for Youth and Families in Crisis Synopsis
In this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, Rupinder K. Legha, and Michelle P. Durham bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Home and Community Based Services for Youth and Families in Crisis. Top experts in the field discuss strategies to empower pediatric communities and their families in times of crisis, by optimizing community partnership with preventative and crisis response interventions for de-escalation and stabilization, expanding financial supports for community and home based mental health services; promoting community oriented emergency psychiatry and mobile crisis service delivery; and promoting local, state, and federal policy intervention for systems of care that focus on the collective health and well-being in environments of children and their families.
Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including federal, state, and local mental health policy interventions in response to the pediatric mental health crisis from the COVID pandemic; trauma-informed response and prevention of mental health crisis in schools using a Culturally Responsive, Antiracist and Equitable (CARE) framework; coordinated systems of care approaches for pediatric emergency and crisis stabilization, mobile treatment, and wraparound services; integrating the Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) Trauma Informed Framework in inpatient, day treatment, partial hospitalization, residential, and community based treatment settings; understanding the social and structural determinants for special populations related to suicide prevention in the BIPOC and LGBTQI communities; and more.
Provides in-depth clinical reviews on home and community based services for youth and families in crisis, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
