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If It Walks like a Duck and Quacks like a Duck then Must It Be a Rabbit? Programs, Systems and a Cumulative Science of Children's Mental Health Services
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Rosenblatt, Abram – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
The system of care approach as a strategy for serving children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED) is by any measure a success with one exception: there is controversy regarding the scientific evidence documenting that the services provided through systems of care improve the symptomatic and functional outcomes of the youth…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Children, Adolescents
HIV Rapid Testing in Substance Abuse Treatment: Implementation Following a Clinical Trial
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Haynes, L. F.; Korte, J. E.; Holmes, B. E.; Gooden, L.; Matheson, T.; Feaster, D. J.; Leff, J. A.; Wilson, L.; Metsch, L. R.; Schackman, B. R. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2011
The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration has promoted HIV testing and counseling as an evidence-based practice. Nevertheless, adoption of HIV testing in substance abuse treatment programs has been slow. This article describes the experience of a substance abuse treatment agency where, following participation in a clinical trial,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Health Services, Counseling Services
The Role of Evaluation in Restructuring of the Public Mental Health System.
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Mowbray, Carol T. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1992
A literature review describes evaluation activities in mental health services in financial, programmatic/clinical, and new constituency areas. Expanding reimbursement for alternative mental health services is offered as a way of developing a formal structure to ensure better utilization of evaluation results. (SLD)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Health Services
Special Feature: Planning and Evaluating Minority Health Programs for the Future.
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Simson, Sharon P., Ed.; Wilson, Laura B., Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Seven papers examine key minority populations that are encompassed in local, state, and federal levels of health program planning. The papers are based on methods of evaluation and planning. Projections on the future course of minority health programing are presented. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Aging (Individuals), Black Community, Community Programs