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Social Welfare: Recent submissions
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Living in the Memory of Loss: Exploring Aggressive, Palliative, and Hospice Care and Surviving Loved Ones
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-08)This study is predominantly a quantitative investigation into the model of care received by deceased loved ones and its impact on the grief reactions of their caregiver. Grief is conceptualized to include both positive ... -
Finding Common Ground: Exploring the Experiences of Client Involvement in Medication Decisions Using a Shared Decision Making Model
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-01)While shared decision making has gained more prominence in recent years in the field of general health care, few shared decision making models have been studied in the field of mental health. This constructivist study ... -
Opening the "Black Box": A Naturalistic Case Study of Restorative Justice
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-25)ABSTRACT OPENING THE "BLACK BOX": A NATURALISTIC CASE STUDY OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE To develop an in-depth understanding of restorative justice process, this study examined multiple perspectives of the participants' experiences ... -
The Role of Estate Recovery in Medicaid Long-term Care: Perspectives of Older Adult Homeowners
(University of Kansas, 2008-10-06)This qualitative study of older homeowners explored their perspectives on the estate recovery provisions that Medicaid recipients are required to accept if they depend on the program for their long-term care. Fifty-one ... -
Positive youth development and youth-professional relationships: Exploring the nature of strengths-based practices with children and youth from professionals' perspectives
(University of Kansas, 2008-05-14)The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of positive youth development as it incorporates aspects of the strengths perspective. This study focused on youth professionals' understanding of the meaning of youth ... -
Children’s Mental Health Task 11 FY ‘08: Family-Directed Structural Therapy Training and Evaluation Project
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2008)Family-Directed Structural Therapy (FDST) is a family-based helping modality that is designed to be utilized with a variety of family and relationship issues. There is a corresponding FDST assessment tool, which is completed ... -
Best Practices for Families with Children Who Experience Substance Abuse, Juvenile
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2007-03)This Best Practice Report reviews four helping modalities that specifically recognize the family as an essential agent of change: Multisystemic Therapy (MST), Brief-Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), Multidimensional Family ... -
Children’s Mental Health Task 11 FY 2007: Family-Directed Structural Therapy Training
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2007-07)Family-Directed Structural Therapy (FDST) is a family-based helping modality that is designed to be utilized with a variety of family and relationship issues. There is a corresponding FDST assessment tool, which is completed ... -
Children’s Mental Health Task 11 FY 2006: Family-Directed Structural Therapy Training Project
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2006-07)Family-Directed Structural Therapy (FDST) is a family-based helping modality that is designed to be utilized with a variety of family and relationship issues. There is a corresponding FDST assessment tool, which is completed ... -
Children’s Mental Health Task 11 FY 2004-2005: Evaluation of a Therapeutic Wilderness
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2006-07)Family-Directed Structural Therapy (FDST) is a family-based helping modality that is designed to be utilized with a variety of family and relationship issues. There is a corresponding FDST assessment tool, which is completed ... -
School-Based Mental Health: A Review of the National Literature
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2007-02)The evidence base for the effectiveness of School-Based Mental Health (SBMH) programs is slowly gaining robustness and indicates that SBMH programs can have a positive impact on individual students' attendance, behavioral, ... -
Home-Based Therapy: Effectiveness and Processes--A Brief Review of the National Literature
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2006-06)Since the late 1980s, home-based family therapy has become an increasingly popular service. The delivery of family therapy in families’ homes presents various advantages and challenges. This review focuses on empirical ... -
Therapeutic Alliance with Children and Families
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2006-03)For many years the therapeutic alliance has been recognized as an important common factor that impacts treatment outcomes across models of therapy for adults. While several meta-analytic studies of adult psychotherapy have ... -
Therapeutic Foster Care--Update and Brief Summary of Previous Report
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Co-Occurring Disorders of Substance Abuse and Serious Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2005-04)The co-occurrence of substance abuse disorders and psychiatric disorders has received increasing national attention since the U.S. Congress required the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) ... -
Community Mental Health Crisis Services for Children and Adolescents
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2004-12)A review of national, and some international, literature was conducted to determine the state-of-the-art knowledge about best practices in crisis services for children and adolescents. Specific attention was given to ... -
Attendant Care for Children and Youth with EBD/SED: Part II Attendant Care in Kansas
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2004-10)Attendant Care (AC) services provided to youth who experience Severe Emotional Disturbances (SED) are individualized support provided in the least restrictive community settings. AC has been identified as a valuable piece ... -
Reactive Attachment Disorder: Concepts, Treatment, and Research
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2004-06)Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a disorder characterized by controversy, both with respect to its definition and its treatment. By definition, the RAD diagnosis attempts to characterize and explain the origin of ... -
Attendant Care for Children and Youth with EBD/SED: Part I National Literature Review
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2004-02)Attendant Care services are frequently offered to children with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) and their families but little is known about best practices in the field. The following report presents a review of ... -
Adventure Based Therapy and Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare
(University of Kansas. School of Social Welfare., 2003-05)Treatment approaches that are based on experiential learning and incorporate adventure or challenge components have recently received increasing attention and interest from behavioral healthcare providers. This treatment ...