This study evaluated the outcome of mental health communication training for pediatric primary care providers. Those who used more agenda setting, time, and anger management skills increased “patient centeredness†toward parents, resulting in improvements in child mental health outcomes.

Pediatric primary care providers report a lack of skills and training to treat child mental health problems. Interventions to improve primary care mental health services for children have largely focused on specific disorders. This article reports the outcomes of a brief training program for...

Using Medicaid data from 2003, this article describes the demographics and diagnoses of youth under 22 receiving mental health services in general and psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, and other residential treatment settings. The research found that treatment...

This issue brief describes findings from a national survey of residential treatment facilities (RTFs) serving children and adolescents with serious behavioral health challenges. The survey explored how system of care principles are reflected in RTFs’ policies and practices as well as how RTFs...

Although social security disability benefits can provide critical income support as well as job assistance and access to medical services for individuals who are homeless, the benefit application process can be challenging. Many homeless people have no consistent source of medical care, lack a...

This brief details factors that help states and communities successfully implement the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) initiative, a program to improve access to disability benefits for people who are homeless.