Session: Mental Health Roundtable I: Treatment Approaches for Children and Youth

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

3121.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Roundtable

Mental Health Roundtable I: Treatment Approaches for Children and Youth

Learning Objectives: 1. Identify special needs or risk factors of the population. 2. Describe some of the challenges in addressing the needs of the population. 3. List some of the effective service or treatment approaches.

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Table 1

Adoptees Whose Parents Divorced: Are They in Double Jeopardy for Youth Problems Compared to Children Reared in One-Parent Biologic Families?
William Feigelman, PhD, Gordon Finley, PhD

Table 2

Failures in treatment: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) as an explanation
Daniel Dubovsky, MSW

Table 3

Impact of major depression in the transition to adulthood on young adult functioning
Angela D. Paradis, BA, Helen Z. Reinherz, ScD, Rose M. Giaconia, PhD

Table 4

Meeting the Mental Health Needs of People with Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MR/DD) and Their Families
Shelly Botuck, Joel M Levy

Table 5

Parent-child interaction therapy: Applying an empirically supported treatment model to high-risk families
Alissa Porter, MS, CHES, Anthony Urquiza, PhD, Jean McGrath, PhD, Nancy Zebell, PhD

Table 6

Patterns of pharmacotherapy for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and comorbid psychiatric conditions in a Medicaid managed care population
Marleen Radigan, MS, MPH, Peter Lannon, BA, Patrick Roohan, MS, Foster Gesten, MD

Table 7

Withdrawn -- Psychoactive Medication Use by Children in Rural Maine: 1997-2000
Gwendolyn Zahner, PhD, Cynthia Suerken

Table 8

Service use and cost of care for children and parents in Florida's foster care system
Marion Becker, RN, PhD, Neil Jordan, PhD

Table 9

Transition services for adolescents aging out of care: Policy options and implementation strategies
Evelyn R. Frankford, MSW, Yvette Lamb, MEd

Table 10

Utilization of health care services by school aged children with and without Attention Deficit Disorder
Gulnur Scott, MPA, Gloria A. Simpson, MA

Organized by:

Mental Health

CE Credits:

Health Education (CHES), Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA