Lived Experience-Led Research Agenda to Address Early Death in People With a Diagnosis of a Serious Mental Illness: A Consensus Statement.

Importance: People with serious mental illness (SMI), defined as a diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, or disabling major depressive disorder) die approximately 10 to 25 years earlier than the general population.

Objective: To develop the first-ever lived experience-led research agenda to address early mortality in people with SMI.

Evidence Review: A virtual 2-day roundtable comprising 40 individuals convened on May 24 and May 26, 2022, and used a virtual Delphi method to arrive at expert group consensus.

Teacher-student relationships and mental health help seeking behaviors among elementary and secondary students in Ontario Canada.

This study examined associations between teacher-student relationship quality at school and teachers' responsiveness to students' emotional concerns in a classroom and (a) students' intention to seek help at school for mental health concerns and (b) mental health-related service use. Data for analyses came from the School Mental Health Survey, a cross-sectional survey of 31,120 grade 6-12 students, in 1968 classrooms, attending 248 schools in Ontario, Canada. Three-level (student, classroom, school) binary logistic regression was used to address the study objectives.

Global research priorities for youth mental health.

Aim: Over the past two decades, the youth mental health field has expanded and advanced considerably. Yet, mental disorders continue to disproportionately affect adolescents and young adults. Their prevalence and associated morbidity and mortality in young people have not substantially reduced, with high levels of unmet need and poor access to evidence-based treatments even in high-income countries.

Frayme: Building the structure to support the international spread of integrated youth services.

Aim: Frayme is a Canadian-based international network designed to accelerate the adoption and scaling up of integrated youth services (IYS). This is done through the synthesis of evidence from a variety of sources and a commitment to integrated knowledge mobilization (KMb) to inform research policy and practice. Frayme is utilizing innovative approaches to stakeholder engagement (youth, families, policy makers, funders, researchers and practitioners) and KMb in order to co-design system change.

Adolescent Mental Health Following Exposure to Positive and Harsh Parenting in Childhood.

Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to assess longitudinal associations between positive and harsh parenting in childhood and adolescent mental and behavioral difficulties.

Methods: Data were drawn from Canada's population-based National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (data collected from 1994 to 2009, analyzed 2018). The sample included 9,882 adolescents aged 12/13 years old.

Trends in mental health system transformation: Integrating youth services within the Canadian context.

The current mental health services system in Canada is fragmented and transitions between the youth and adult mental health systems have been identified as needing significant improvement. Integrated Youth Services (IYS) are designed to be adaptable and developmentally appropriate as well as to promote seamless transitions, including during emerging adulthood. This article provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian mental health system transformation to promote the integration of services and the holistic promotion of youth well-being.

Understanding the mental health and recovery needs of Canadian youth with mental health disorders: a Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) collaboration protocol.

Background: While considerable progress is being made to understand the health and self-management needs of youth with mental health disorders, little attention has focused on the mental health and recovery needs that the youth themselves identify-this despite a national priority to incorporate patient-oriented research into the development and assessment of mental health services. To address this gap, estimates of the extent to which existing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)-originally developed for use amongst adult populations-are clinically meaningful and psychometrically fit for use among youth are needed. In tandem, a recovery profile for youth can be constructed incorporating the youth perspective of the services provided within a community mental health setting.

Examining Integrated Youth Services Using the Bioecological Model: Alignments and Opportunities.

Integrated youth service (IYS) is a collaborative approach that brings practitioners together from across disciplines to provide comprehensive services including mental health care for youth and their families. IYS models serve as an advancement in practice as they go beyond the capacity of individual programs and services to reduce the fragmentation of care. Yet, there continue to be opportunities to expand on this perspective and promote health beyond the scope of formalized services.

Stigma in school-based mental health: perceptions of young people and service providers.

Background: Mental health affects one in five young people, with the majority avoiding help due to stigma. In this study, young people's (n = 49) perception of stigma as a barrier to accessing school-based mental health services was compared with that of service providers (n = 63), along with the perceived extent of mental health problems and availability of school-based mental health resources.

Method: Participants completed a survey or interview.

Knowledge translation efforts in child and youth mental health: a systematic review.

The availability of knowledge translation strategies that have been empirically studied and proven useful is a critical prerequisite to narrowing the research-to-practice gap in child and youth mental health. Through this review the authors sought to determine the current state of scientific knowledge of the effectiveness of knowledge translation approaches in child and youth mental health by conducting a systematic review of the research evidence. The findings and quality of the 12 included studies are discussed.

Tying together research and practice: using ROPE for successful partnerships in school mental health.

There is solid evidence for strategies and programs that, if implemented with fidelity in schools, will enhance the mental health of children and youth. These practices are, however, inconsistently applied and rarely evaluated programmatically in every day practice. In recent years, implementation variables that influence uptake have received attention.

Collaborating with youth to inform and develop tools for psychotropic decision making.

Introduction: Youth oriented and informed resources designed to support psychopharmacotherapeutic decision-making are essentially unavailable. This article outlines the approach taken to design such resources, the product that resulted from the approach taken, and the lessons learned from the process.

Methods: A project team with psychopharmacology expertise was assembled.

Child and youth mental health: Integrated health care using contemporary competency-based teams.

Mental health teams have long been the foundation for mental health services provided to children and youth. Changes in professional practices, the emergence of evidence-based care, the importance of integrating mental health into primary health care delivery, the decrease in professional 'ownership' of mental health care competencies and other factors now challenge the traditional structure and function of these teams. New and novel frameworks will be needed to address mental health care needs for problems that do not require 'traditional' mental health service interventions, to enable integration of mental health care into usual health services, to promote specialist mental health care delivery for those in need, and to facilitate the development and translation of mental health research into practice.

Are we there yet? Evaluation and the knowledge translation journey.

Introduction: Critical to knowledge translation are organizations' efforts to evaluate their implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs). Organizations face challenges in their ability to be aware of emerging practices, to measure their efforts against current evidence, and to adapt EBPs to their contextual environments. The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health has engaged in initiatives to increase the uptake of EBPs and mobilize knowledge by building capacity for evaluation and research in the sector.