Parents of children with emotional disorders: issues for consideration and practice.

Parents with children who have serious emotional disorders face significant personal and family issues in their parental role. Professionals providing services to these families must be sensitive to a variety of issues if they are to provide an emphathic context when these families are seeking help. This paper will explore the stress these families incur, the loss they experience, and the resources needed for coping and the preservation of family integrity.

Emotionally handicapped youth in transition: issues and principles for program development.

Seriously emotionally handicapped adolescents face significant transition issues as they move through our system of care and attempt to assume adult role responsibilities in the community. Service delivery efforts must be sensitive to these issues and begin to realistically address the transition needs of this population. Nine integrative principles are discussed which appear essential when developing transition services.

The evaluation of case management services with the chronically mentally ill.

This study reports the results of an experiment comparing a developmental-acquisition model of case management to usual case management services provided through a mental health center. This is the first study of case management with the chronically mentally ill to employ a true experimental design comparing two types of case management service. The statistically significant discriminant functions resulting from the analysis correctly classified 77% of the subjects based on the case manager's assessment of clients' socialization skills, assessment of community living skills by a significant other and the client, the client's tolerance of stress, use of leisure time, community behavior, and vocational training.