scholarly journals Outcomes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and young people in out-of-home care presenting at a specialist child and youth mental health service

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (s1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Kathryn Eadie ◽  
Mandy Douch
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Indigenous Children

Assisting Carers to Respond to the Mental Health Needs of Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Fergeus ◽  
Cathy Humphreys ◽  
Carol Harvey ◽  
Helen Herrman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Developed World

Across the developed world, efforts are being made to identify and develop effective interventions that will reduce the prevalence and severity of mental health problems among children and young people in out-of-home care. Foster and kinship carers have been identified as critically important in this process. In order to develop an understanding of what interventions and/or supports assist carers in responding effectively to the mental health needs of the children and young people in their care, a scoping review was undertaken. Using the scoping study method, 1064 publications were identified, and 82 publications were selected for further analysis. The review shows that promising interventions that aim to improve the mental health of children and young people living in out-of-home care have been developed and trialled both in Australia and internationally. However, the review also highlights the lack of research specifically focused on the role of the carer.

Prevalence of subthreshold positive symptoms in young people without psychotic disorders presenting to a youth mental health service

2020 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 446-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Seiler ◽  
James Maguire ◽  
Tony Nguyen ◽  
Holly Sizer ◽  
Patrick McGorry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Positive Symptoms

Evolve Therapeutic Services: Outcomes for Children and Young People in Out-of-Home Care with Complex Behavioural and Mental Health Problems

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Eadie
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Post Treatment ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Therapeutic Services

This study evaluated Evolve Therapeutic Services, an innovative Queensland, Australian programme employing a trauma-informed collaborative wrap-round model of care in combination with a flexible intervention approach that is individually tailored to children and young people in out-of-home care who present with complex and extreme behavioural and mental health problems. The sample consisted of 768 children and young people. Three measures, the Children's Global Assessment Scale, Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire were used to assess functioning via a pre-post treatment design. Outcomes were assessed by comparing pre and post-treatment mean scores using repeated-measurest-tests. For estimates of differences in the proportion of children and young people in the clinical range between pre and post-treatment the McNemar test was used. In addition, surveys were completed by carers and stakeholders. Results provided a demographic profile, clinical profile and pre and post-treatment comparisons. Results revealed significant improvements across a range of problem areas: general functioning and adjustment; antisocial behaviour; overactivity and poor attention; non-accidental self-injury; problems with scholastic and language skills; emotional symptoms; peer and family relationships; self-care and independence; and school attendance. Survey data supported the outcomes from the stakeholder-rated and carer-rated measures. Findings provide ongoing evidence for the effectiveness of the therapeutic intervention programme.

scholarly journals Young People’s Satisfaction With the Online Mental Health Service eheadspace: Development and Implementation of a Service Satisfaction Measure (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Rickwood ◽  
Alison Wallace ◽  
Vanessa Kennedy ◽  
Shaunagh O’Sullivan ◽  
Nic Telford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Young People ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Potential Outcomes ◽  
Service Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Service Contact

BACKGROUND Online youth mental health services are an expanding approach to meeting service need and can be used as the first step in a stepped-care approach. However, limited evidence exists regarding satisfaction with online services, and there is no standardized service satisfaction measure. OBJECTIVE This study implemented an online youth mental health service satisfaction questionnaire within eheadspace, an online youth mental health service. The aims were to test the questionnaire’s psychometric properties and identify current levels of satisfaction among service users, as well as to identify client and service contact characteristics that affect satisfaction. METHODS Data were collected from 2280 eheadspace clients via an online questionnaire advertised and accessed through the eheadspace service platform between September 2016 and February 2018. Client and service contact characteristics, potential outcomes, and session and service feedback data were collected. RESULTS The service satisfaction questionnaire demonstrated high internal consistency for the overall satisfaction scale (alpha=.95) and its three subscales: session satisfaction, potential outcomes, and service satisfaction. A three-factor model was the best fit to the data, although including a higher order unidimensional construct of overall satisfaction was also a reasonable fit. Overall, young people were very satisfied with eheadspace (mean 3.60, SD 0.83). Service characteristics, but not client characteristics, were significantly associated with satisfaction. Young people were more satisfied with eheadspace when they had greater engagement as evident through receiving esupport rather than briefer service provision, having a longer session and greater interaction with the clinician, and not previously attending a face-to-face headspace center. CONCLUSIONS The online youth mental health service satisfaction questionnaire developed for and implemented in eheadspace showed good psychometric properties. The measure is brief, has good internal consistency, and has a clear factor structure. The measure could be adapted for use in other online youth mental health services. The young people using eheadspace and completing the feedback survey were highly satisfied. Greater engagement with the online service was shown to be associated with greater satisfaction. No specific client demographic groups were shown to be more or less satisfied.

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