Practice Parameter for the Assessment and Management of Youth Involved With the Child Welfare System - 28/05/15
Doi : 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.03.005
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This Practice Parameter presents principles for the mental health assessment and management of youth involved with the child welfare system. Important definitions, background, history, epidemiology, mental health care use, and functional outcomes are described. Practical guidance regarding child welfare-related considerations for evaluation and management are discussed.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Key Words : practice parameters, practice guidelines, child and adolescent psychiatry, foster care, child welfare
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| This article can be used to obtain continuing medical education (CME) at www.jaacap.org. |
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| This Parameter was developed by Terry Lee, MD, George Fouras, MD, Rachel Brown, MBBS, MPhil, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Committee on Quality Issues (CQI): Heather J. Walter, MD, MPH, and Oscar G. Bukstein, MD, MPH, co-chairs, and Christopher Bellonci, MD, Scott Benson, MD, Allan Chrisman, MD, John Hamilton, MD, Munya Hayek, MD, Helene Keable, MD, Carol Rockhill, MD, Ulrich Schoettle, MD, Matthew Siegel, MD, and Saundra Stock, MD. |
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| The AACAP Practice Parameters are developed by the AACAP CQI in accordance with American Medical Association policy. Parameter development is an iterative process among the primary author(s), the CQI, topic experts, and representatives from multiple constituent groups, including the AACAP membership, relevant AACAP committees, the AACAP Assembly of Regional Organizations, and the AACAP Council. Details of the Parameter development process can be accessed on the AACAP Web site. Responsibility for Parameter content and review rests with the author(s), the CQI, the CQI Consensus Group, and the AACAP Council. |
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| AACAP develops patient-oriented and clinician-oriented Practice Parameters. Patient-oriented Parameters provide recommendations to guide clinicians toward best assessment and treatment practices. Recommendations are based on the critical appraisal of empirical evidence (when available) and clinical consensus (when not) and are graded according to the strength of the empirical and clinical support. Clinician-oriented Parameters provide clinicians with the information (stated as principles) needed to develop practice-based skills. Although empirical evidence might be available to support certain principles, principles are based primarily on clinical consensus. This Parameter is a clinician-oriented Parameter. |
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| The primary intended audience for the AACAP Practice Parameters is child and adolescent psychiatrists; however, the information contained therein also might be useful for other medical and mental health clinicians. |
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| The authors acknowledge the following experts for their contributions to this Parameter: Emilie Becker, MD, Marilyn Benoit, MD, Joan Daughton, MD, Michael Naylor, MD, Lesley Siegel, MD, Enrico Suardi, MD, Laurel K. Leslie, MD, Peter Pecora, PhD, the Child Welfare League of America, and Angela Lee, MSW, MLS. An earlier draft of the Parameter was reviewed by the following experts: Christine Davidson, PhD, Ronald Davidson, PhD, April Fields, MD, J. Matthew Orr, PhD, Guy Palmes, MD, Alvin Rosenfeld, MD, Alan Rushton, PhD, Moira Szilagyi, MD, and Jill Welte, LCSW. |
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| Jennifer Medicus served as the AACAP staff liaison for the CQI. |
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| This Practice Parameter was reviewed at the Member Forum at the AACAP Annual Meeting in October 2012. An earlier draft of the Parameter was reviewed at the Member Forum at the AACAP Annual Meeting in October 2009. |
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| From April 2014 to September 2014, this Parameter was reviewed by a consensus group convened by the CQI. Consensus group members and their constituent groups were Heather J. Walter, MD, MPH, co-chair; Oscar G. Bukstein, MD, MPH, Saundra Stock, MD, and Carol Rockhill, MD (CQI); Laurel K. Leslie, MD, and Michael Naylor, MD (topic experts); Judith A. Cohen, MD, and Jeanette M. Scheid, MD, PhD (AACAP Child Maltreatment and Violence Committee); Elise Leonard, MD (AACAP Assembly of Regional Organizations); and Aradhana “Bela” Sood, MD, and Warren Y.K. Ng, MD (AACAP Council). |
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| This Practice Parameter was approved by the AACAP Council on January 21, 2015. |
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| This Practice Parameter is available on the Internet (www.aacap.org). |
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| Disclosures: Terry Lee, MD, George Fouras, MD, and Rachel Brown, MBBS, MPhil, have no financial relationships to disclose. Oscar Bukstein, MD, MPH, co-chair, has intellectual property with Routledge Press. Heather Walter, MD, MPH, co-chair, has no financial relationships to disclose. |
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| Correspondence to the AACAP Communications Department, 3615 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016. |
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American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS. Tous droits réservés.
Vol 54 - N° 6
P. 502-517 - juin 2015 Retour au numéro
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