Mental Health Services for Foster Children

寄养儿童心理健康服务

• 批准号: 6969239
• 负责人: SONYA J LEATHERS
• 金额: $ 12.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6969239
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; academic achievement; behavior disorders; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; child foster care /adoption; child mental health service; child rearing; clinical research; health care model; health care service evaluation; health care service utilization; health services research tag; human data; human subject; learning disorders; model design /development; mood disorders; psychosocial service; racial /ethnic difference; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ultimate goal of this Career Development Award is to provide the applicant with the skills and knowledge necessary to study an ecological mental health service model for foster children. The award will allow the applicant to gain the expertise necessary to develop and study service models that integrate mental health functions into child welfare service operations and provide ecologically focused services in foster homes and in schools. Several factors provide an exceptional opportunity to develop an effective context-specific service model, including the high expenditures on clinical services in child welfare, the pervasive nature of child welfare services, and the recent attention on foster children's low academic achievement and the poor conditions in many foster homes. The proposed model will integrate mental health interventions into existing child welfare services to capitalize on the existing service contacts that occur in foster homes and schools with limited evidence of effectiveness. With this Career Development Award, the applicant will build upon a strong background in research methods, direct practice in child welfare, and applied research with foster children. The proposed goals include gaining advanced skills in research and statistical methods; knowledge and skills in the implementation of effective intervention technologies in foster homes and schools; skills in the use of strategies to enhance model sustainability and an understanding of how agency and state-level factors affect sustainability. These enhanced skills and knowledge will allow the applicant to pursue mental health services research with the goal of studying sustainable, effective service models for foster children. The research plan consists of two studies. In the first, secondary analyses using methods appropriate for longitudinal analysis of clustered data will be used to test foster parent and agency-level effects on changes in foster children's emotional and behavioral problems over time. The second study will be a pilot study of an integrated foster home-school intervention for children with behavior problems that will involve providing foster behavior management training, case consultation with teachers, and support of foster parents and teachers in their use of behavior management and strategies to support academic performance. A provider team including existing mental health providers, caseworkers, and paraprofessionals will provide services in an existing agency. This pilot study will form the basis for a future R01 project to develop and test the effectiveness of an integrated foster home and school-based mental health service model for foster children.

简介（由申请人提供）：本职业发展奖的最终目的是为申请人提供研究寄养儿童生态心理健康服务模式所需的技能和知识。该奖项将使申请人获得必要的专业知识，以发展和研究将精神健康功能纳入儿童福利服务运作的服务模式，并在寄养家庭和学校提供注重生态的服务。有几个因素为发展一种有效的特定环境服务模式提供了一个特殊的机会，包括儿童福利临床服务的高额支出，儿童福利服务的普遍性，以及最近对寄养儿童学业成绩低和许多寄养家庭条件差的关注。拟议的模式将把心理健康干预措施纳入现有的儿童福利服务，以充分利用寄养家庭和学校中现有的服务联系，这些联系的有效性证据有限。获得此职业发展奖后，申请人将在研究方法、直接从事儿童福利工作，以及与寄养儿童进行应用研究等方面建立深厚的背景。拟议的目标包括获得研究和统计方法方面的高级技能；在寄养家庭和学校实施有效干预技术的知识和技能；运用策略提高模型可持续性的技能，了解机构和国家层面的因素如何影响可持续性。这些增强的技能和知识将使申请人能够从事精神健康服务的研究，目的是研究为寄养儿童提供可持续和有效的服务模式。