Barriers Associated with the Implementation of Homework in Youth Mental Health Treatment and Potential Mobile Health Solutions.

Background: Homework, or between-session practice of skills learned during therapy, is integral to effective youth mental health TREATMENTS. However, homework is often under-utilized by providers and patients due to many barriers, which might be mitigated via Health solutions.

Methods: Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with nationally certified trainers in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT; =21) and youth TF-CBT patients ages 8-17 (=15) and their caregivers (=12) to examine barriers to the successful implementation of homework in youth mental health treatment and potential Health solutions to those barriers.

Extent of pathologic extracapsular extension and outcomes in patients with nonoropharyngeal head and neck cancer treated with initial surgical resection.

Background: Lymph node extracapsular extension (ECE) is a known adverse prognostic factor in head and neck cancer and is an indication for adjuvant chemoradiation (CRT). However, the extent of ECE may provide additional prognostic information in the setting of adjuvant CRT.

Methods: This study included 350 patients with oral cavity cancer (72.