Enhancing Mental Health Services to Children with Autism

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目代表了加州大学戴维斯分校卫生系统（UCDHS）与神经发育障碍医学研究（m.i.n.d）之间正式合作的跨学科研究项目的第一步。卫生和技术中心（CHT）。该项目将审查障碍并制定战略和准则，以优化远程保健技术（临床远程医疗、远程学习、互联网通信和信息分发）在向农村社区自闭症儿童及其家庭提供高质量、经验支持和协调良好的心理健康服务方面的效力。该项目将建立一个跨学科网络或“M.I.N.D.银行”，由来自人类学、医学社会学、特殊教育和成人学习、公共关系和市场营销、政治学、医学伦理和法律、儿童精神病学、儿童心理学、传播科学和技术以及自闭症治疗等领域的教师学者组成。一个由社区和州精神卫生部门、发展服务组织、特殊教育和家长组织等利益相关者组成的社区咨询委员会（CAB）将在指导方针制定的整个过程中向m.i.n.d银行提供建议。拟议项目的目标是：1。组建一个跨学科的学术学者学术银行和一个由利益攸关方组成的社区咨询委员会，这些利益攸关方将参与一个互动的迭代过程，以确定在支持自闭症儿童最佳做法方面使用远程保健技术的潜在优势和障碍；2. 审查和整合学科观点，制定一套跨学科准则，内容涉及利用远程保健加强对农村自闭症儿童的有经验支持的干预措施的最佳做法，并考虑到文化和伦理挑战；3. 设计并撰写研究建议，以调查新制定的跨学科远程保健指南在加强农村社区自闭症儿童心理健康实践方面的功效。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project represents the first step in a formal collaborative, interdisciplinary research program at the University of California, Davis Health System (UCDHS) between the Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (M.I.N.D.) Institute and the Center for Health and Technology (CHT). The project will review obstacles and develop strategies and guidelines for optimizing the effectiveness of telehealth technologies (clinical telemedicine, distance learning, internet communication and information distribution) in the delivery of high quality, empirically supported, well coordinated mental health services for children with autism and their families in rural communities. The project will develop an interdisciplinary network or "M.I.N.D. Bank" of faculty scholars from such areas as anthropology, medical sociology, special education and adult learning, public relations and marketing, political science, medical ethics and law, child psychiatry, child psychology, communication sciences and technology, and autism treatment. A Community Advisory Board (CAB) of stakeholders, including representatives from community and state mental health departments, developmental services organizations, special education, and parent organizations, will advise the M.I.N.D. Bank throughout the guideline development process. The aims of the proposed project are to: 1. Form an interdisciplinary faculty M.I.N.D. Bank of academic scholars and a Community Advisory Board (CAB) of stakeholders, who will engage in an interactive, iterative process to identify the potential advantages and barriers to the use of telehealth technologies in supporting best practices for children with autism; 2. Review and integrate disciplinary perspectives to produce a set of interdisciplinary guidelines regarding best practices for using telehealth to enhance empirically supported interventions to rural children with autism that will take into account cultural and ethical challenges; 3. Design and write research proposals to investigate the efficacy of the newly developed interdisciplinary telehealth guidelines to enhance delivery of mental health practices for children with autism in rural communities.