Disseminating Education and Treatment for Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders Across Levels of Care.

Background: Eating disorders (EDs) are psychiatric illnesses with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Healthcare providers often receive inadequate training in evidence-based ED assessment and treatment.

Design: Project CORE (Creating Opportunities for Rhode Island Eating Disorders Professionals) was developed to disseminate ED training/education and treatment approaches to the healthcare workforce.

Integrated, Family-based, Partial Hospital Treatment for Complex Pediatric Illness.

This paper describes a unique treatment program for complex pediatric illness. The Hasbro Children's Partial Hospital Program uses a family systems orientation, integrated care, and a partial hospital setting to treat children with a wide range of pediatric illnesses that have failed outpatient and inpatient treatments. We have treated more than 2000 children with at least 80 different ICD-9 diagnoses.

Family-Based Integrated Care (FBIC) in a Partial Hospital Program for Complex Pediatric Illness: Fostering Shifts in Family Illness Beliefs and Relationships.

The heuristic model of family-based integrated care (FBIC) was developed from 1998 to 2016 in the context of the development of the Hasbro Children's Partial Hospital Program (HCPHP) along with the development of a family therapy training program for Brown University child psychiatry and triple board residents. The clinical experience of the HCPHP team in treating more than 2000 patients and families in combination with the authors' experience in training residents for diverse practice settings highlights the usefulness of the FBIC paradigm for interdisciplinary family-based treatment for a broad range of illnesses and levels of care.

Training Child Psychiatrists in Family-Based Integrated Care.

Family-based assessment and intervention are essential skills for child psychiatrists that are often neglected in fellowship training. The Brown Model for Family Therapy Training described here has evolved during the past 15 years. It is a model for training residents in family-based integrated care (FBIC), which has data to support postgraduate perception of positive impact on real-world practice.

An evaluation of a positive youth development program for adolescents with chronic illness.

Purpose: Youth with chronic illness often struggle transitioning to adulthood and adult medical care. This article examines the outcomes of a group mentoring program called The Adolescent Leadership Council (TALC) that brings together high school participants and college mentors, all with chronic illness. TALC uses a positive youth development (PYD) approach, emphasizing strong relationships between youth and adults in an environment where youth can learn important life skills and take a leadership role.