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Assessing Child Mental Health
Resources for screening and assessing children's mental health.
AACAP/CWLA Policy Statement on Mental Health and Substance Use Screening and Assessment of Children in Foster Care
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2002)
Encourages foster care programs to screen and assess children for mental health and substance abuse problems, and provides guidelines for appropriate procedures and instruments.
Children's Mental Health Resource Kit: Promoting Children's Mental Health Screens and Assessments
Children's Defense Fund (2003)
Designed to help practitioners promote access to and the availability of mental health screens and assessments for children.
Mental Health Assessment and Environmentally Inclusive Treatment for Abused Children and Low-Income, Multiethnic, and/or Multiproblem Families
Hoffman (2001)
In Innovative Practices With Vulnerable Children and Families
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Describes the need for a social work environmental perspective for the diagnosis of mental health problems and reviews research about how environmental factors contribute to mental illness, substance abuse, and child abuse.
Teaching Social Workers to Use Psychological Assessment Data
Kayser & Lyon
Child Welfare, 79(2), 2000
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Describes how caseworkers can become more knowledgeable of psychological assessments and how collaborative relationships between evaluating psychologists and caseworkers can be fostered.
Young children's mental health
Fragile Early Years: Assessing the Mental Health of Infants and Toddlers
Wattenberg (Ed.) (2000)
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Contains the text of a presentation and discussion about evaluating parent-child attachment and infant mental health.
Handbook of Infant Mental Health
Zeanah (2000, 2nd ed.)
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Reviews infant mental health issues, including child development, risk and protective factors, assessment techniques, psychopathology, intervention, and implications for policy and practice.
Mental Health Screening Tool (MHST 0-5): Child 0 to 5 Years (PDF - 50 KB)
California Institute for Mental Health (2000)
A brief screening tool to identify young children most urgently in need of a more thorough mental health screening or assessment.
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Youth/juvenile mental health
Mental Health Screening Tool (MHST): 5 Years to Adult (PDF - 48 KB)
California Institute for Mental Health (2000)
A brief tool to rapidly screen children and youth ages 5 through adult to identify which children/youth should be referred for a mental health assessment and prioritize the urgency of the referral.
Multimodal Assessment of Dissociation in Adolescents: Inpatients and Juvenile Sex Offenders
Mayo Clinic
Sexual Abuse, 13(3), 2001
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A study of the validity of several measures used to assess dissociation, a psychological disorder, in children.
Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: A Resource Guide for Practitioners (PDF - 1910 KB)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2004)
A comprehensive synthesis of information on instruments that can be used to screen and assess youth for mental health- and substance use-related disorders, including profiles of more than 50 instruments, guidelines for selecting instruments, and practice recommendations for diverse settings and situations.
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