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Focal Point, Volume 33, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 33, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point explores the findings from the local evaluations conducted by Healthy Transitions grantees over the past 5 years as well as present evaluation findings from two other innovative programs for transition-aged youth and young adults. Taken together, the articles in this issue supply service providers and planners across the nation with an indication of the successful outcomes generated by a variety of program approaches.
Focal Point, Special Compilation Issue 2007–2019, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Special Compilation Issue 2007–2019, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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For this special compilation, we have included a variety of contributions by youth and young adults that originally appeared in Focal Point issues from 2007 to 2019. These first-hand narratives of recovery personalize what might otherwise be seen only in clinical terms, or represented by a mere statistic. By sharing their stories, these young people also offer hope to other young people experiencing similar problems, and their families. This collection portrays the wide range of individual experiences of youth and young adults and highlights common themes.
Focal Point, Volume 32, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 32, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point includes a series of research summaries that reflect the state of the science and project descriptions focused on the theme of community integration for youth and young adults who experience serious mental health conditions. Space in Focal Point is limited, and this has meant that we are only able to include short versions of each of these articles. However, more detailed versions of most of the articles – including extensive reference lists – are available on the Pathways RTC website. We encourage you to take a look at these longer versions for further detail and …
Focal Point, Volume 31, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 31, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Research demonstrates that the prevalence of mental health conditions among justice system involved youth is alarmingly high, coupled with a strong likelihood of multiple traumatic exposures. Unfortunately, while the need for appropriate and timely treatment is acute, the juvenile justice system seems challenged in meeting it. The authors of this issue of Focal Point identify and propose solutions to these challenges with new research findings.
Focal Point, Volume 30, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 30, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue explores early psychosis intervention services. Throughout history psychosis has traumatized and permanently disrupted people's lives, but early psychosis intervention is showing that much of this trauma and disability can be prevented. Early psychosis intervention services are rapidly becoming available in every state of the US, and thousands of people who have lived through psychosis are speaking out and proving that we have every reason for hope.
Focal Point, Volume 28, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 28, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Between one–third and one–half of young adults with mental health challenges have co-occurring substance use issues. This issue of Focal Point examines treatments and supports for this population.
Focal Point, Volume 27, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 27, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This special issue of Focal Point focuses on best practices for helping youth and young adults with mental health challenges reach their educational and employment goals, by highlighting preliminary results from some of our research at Pathways to Positive Futures as well as some of the work being done at the Transitions RTC at the University of Massachusetts.
Focal Point, Volume 26, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 26, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point focuses on the recognition that mental health and physical health should not be considered separately. It addresses how the mind and body impact each other, and how we can strive to achieve balance within ourselves.
Focal Point, Volume 25, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 25, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point is about Healthy Relationships and their effects on young adults with mental health conditions. While most of the articles focus on the positive aspects of relationships, others highlight more negative experiences and their impacts.
Focal Point, Volume 24, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 24, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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The articles included in this inaugural issue of the "new" Focal Point address "Transitions to Adulthood" from the perspectives of researchers, youth, family, and professionals. [This is the first issue of Focal Point as published by the Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures; previous issues had been published under the preceding RTC for Family Support and Children's Mental Health.]
Focal Point, Volume 23 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 23 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point highlights a number of successful and innovative efforts to promote youth voice and youth empowerment. Many of the articles are authored by or include contributions from youth who are directly involved in the featured programs.
Focal Point, Volume 23 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 23 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Stigmatization can result in exclusion of and discrimination against the stigmatized individual. This issue of Focal Point provides state-of-the-art information about stigmatization, its causes and consequences, and strategies and programs for alleviating it.
Focal Point, Volume 22 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 22 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point—through a consideration of personal, lived experience as well as practice and research—examines the mutual impact of caregiver and child mental health, and highlights practical strategies to promote positive outcomes for children and caregivers who experience mental health difficulties.
Focal Point, Volume 22 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 22 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point explores how the increasing emphasis on using evidence–based practices and a "system of care" approach is driving changes in jobs and roles related to children's mental health. Articles in the issue describe how agencies and providers of services and supports have responded to these changes by creating new types of positions or by redefining existing roles. The articles also focus on training and other workforce development activities that are required to support these kinds of changes in the workforce.
Focal Point, Volume 21 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 21 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Evidence–based programs produce positive outcomes for consumers, providers, and the greater public. However, not all evidence–based programs have been proven to work with diverse groups. This issue of Focal Point features programs that have been developed specifically to meet the needs of underserved youth such as immigrants, rural or homeless youth, and those from racial or sexual minority groups.
Focal Point, Volume 21 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 21 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This Focal Point issue focuses on child traumatic stress, particularly as experienced by children involved in the child welfare system. The causes and effects of traumatic stress are discussed, as are evidence-based treatments, and prevention strategies.
Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point describes the need for, and provides examples of, new strategies for meeting the mental health needs of children and adolescents involved with the juvenile justice system.
Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 20 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point discusses how social support can be harnessed to improve children's mental health. Articles in this issue define and recommend various methods of establishing and improving social support among families, mentors, and peers. Types of support examined include family–to–family support, wraparound, peer support, and natural support.
Focal Point, Volume 19 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 19 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point examines the concepts of resilience and recovery and what they mean in the context of mental health care for children and adolescents. A resilience-and-recovery perspective highlights new ideas and strategies for transforming mental health care for children and adolescents.
Focal Point, Volume 18 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 18 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue highlights recent work at the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health in Portland, Oregon. The Center's work is guided by a vision of family–professional partnership within systems of care serving children with emotional or behavioral disorders and their families.
Focal Point, Volume 16 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 16 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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The articles in this issue describe a variety of strategies communities have used to systematically engage the perspectives of family and community members. With these strategies in place, family and community members have the opportunity to play a central role in making and monitoring concrete action plans for increasing cultural competence.
Focal Point, Volume 16 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 16 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Strengths-based practice is not just about supporting consumers as they identify and use their own positive capacities and assets. It is also about finding community assets which help link the consumer to these potential informal and community supports. For many people—consumers and providers alike—there is a great appeal to the idea of building an individual’s strengths while drawing on the community to build a supportive, individualized network of relationships and involvements. Yet when it comes down to planning and providing services and supports for children with emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, it is often difficult to see whether …
Focal Point, Volume 15 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 15 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point begins from the idea that enrichments, far from being frivolous, are instead essential. The joy and meaningfulness which enrichments provide make a direct, positive contribution to quality of life. What is more, enriching experiences add to our reserves of strength and purpose, and these reserves in turn enable us to adapt, cope, recover and even thrive in the face of challenges and stresses. Specifically, this issue of Focal Point looks at research related to sources of enrichment, and at innovative programs that promote enrichment and achieve positive outcomes for children with emotional and behavioral challenges, …
Focal Point, Volume 15 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 15 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Transitions are difficult for all of us, but for children and youth with emotional and behavioral challenges, transitions are often both more difficult and more frequent than for their peers. Even “normal”, age-defined transitions such as the transition to kindergarten or the transition to independent living are often extremely difficult for children and youth with emotional and behavioral challenges, and for their families or other caregivers. Transitions—accompanied by the disruption of routine and the need to interact with unfamiliar people—are precisely the types of situations that are often most unsettling and stressful for these children.
Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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FROM THE EDITORS. It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the premiere collaborative issue of Focal Point. The joint effort between the Center For Effective Collaboration and Practice and the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children’s Mental Health exemplifies a larger partnership initiative put forward by the Center for Mental Health Services’ (CMHS) Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program. The goal of an enhanced partnership is to promote improved services that lead to better outcomes for youth and their families. Along these lines we hope you find the fruits …
Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 14 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Young people are assuming more, and more empowered roles in systems of care. They participate actively in planning for their own services and treatment, setting policy, and evaluating programs. This issue includes a discussion of resources that have been developed to help in the process of developing youth-adult partnership in these areas.
Focal Point, Volume 13 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 13 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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This issue of Focal Point examines the ways in which families with employed caregivers and children with emotional and behavioral disorders manage to meet the demands of employment and family responsibilities. Finding a fit between the demands of work and family life is a struggle for every employed mother and father. For parents whose children have emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders, meeting this challenge can prove extremely stressful, particularly since supportive services are notably lacking. Although Fernandez has estimated that 10% of all employed parents have at least one child with a disability living in their homes, there has been …
Focal Point, Volume 12 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 12 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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Much of the family member involvement that is happening at the state and local level is due, at least in part, to the efforts by the federal government to institutionalize family involvement in policymaking. In 1985 Child and Adolescent Service System (CASSP) staff added a family goal to the program. This goal translated into a requirement that state applications for CASSP funds describe how families would participate in service planning efforts at the child and family, program, and system levels. In 1986 Congress passed the State Mental Health Services Comprehensive Plan (Public Law 99-660), which mandated family member participation in …
Focal Point, Volume 11 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 11 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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In the discussion on the issues of juvenile crime, the nation has ignored the prevalence of mental disorders among youth who commit crimes, and it has failed to provide policy directives on how state systems should respond. With the nation’s attention riveted on youth violence, the issue of prevalence has began to emerge, with the realization that many of the violent acts are committed by a small percentage of young people. Policymakers are beginning to ask questions about the conditions that contribute to a young person’s tendency toward delinquency acts.
Focal Point, Volume 10 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
Focal Point, Volume 10 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute
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The federal Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP), launched in 1984, has been an important contributor to the movement to make major changes in the way services are provided to children with severe emotional disorders and their families . The principles underlying CASSP call for community-based systems of care that are comprehensive and emphasize coordination among child-serving agencies, service delivery in the least restrictive environment, full involvement of families, and cultural competence. These principles have been widely accepted in the worlds of child welfare, child mental health, juvenile justice and special education.