Beyond COVID-19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience.

Several Canadian and international scholars offer commentaries on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for governments and public service institutions, and fruitful directions for public administration research and practice. This second suite of commentaries considers the challenges confronting governments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the decades to come with an increasingly broad lens: the need to understand and rethink the architecture of the state given recent and future challenges awaiting governments; the need to rethink government-civil society relations and policies to deliver services for increasingly diverse citizens and communities; the need for new repertoires and sensibilities on the part of governments for recognizing, anticipating, and engaging on governance risks despite imperfect expert knowledge and public skepticism; how the COVID-19 crisis has caused us to reconceive international and sub-national borders where new "borders" are being drawn; and the need to anticipate a steady stream of crises similar to the COVID-19 pandemic arising from climate change and related challenges, and develop new national and international governance strategies for fostering population and community resilience.

Roger Alan Myers (1930-2015).

Presents an obituary for Roger Alan Myers, who passed away September 13, 2015, in Stuart, Florida, at age 85. Meyers was a long-time national leader of counseling psychology.

Learning from the ground up: responding to children affected by parental incarceration.

Beginning in the fall of 2007, Illinois' Division of Mental Health began piloting an early intervention program targeting children of incarcerated parents. The pilot program was situated within a community-based agency on the Westside of Chicago with a high number of currently and formerly incarcerated community members. This article describes the program theory upon which the pilot program was based, the perceived benefits from the perspective of participants and the service provider agency, lessons learned, and recommendations for making incarceration-sensitive interventions a routine part of children's mental health services.

Improving practice-research connections through technology transfer networks.

This paper presents a first look at network and survey data collected to ascertain the salience and value-added of technology transfer networks in reducing the science-to-service gap in behavioral healthcare services. The National Child Traumatic Stress Network served as the case setting upon which administrative and survey data were analyzed. Results show a rich set of formal relationships within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and suggest participants found these relationships and this medium useful in altering their day-to-day practices and increasing their professional knowledge.

Quality of mental health care for depressed adolescents.

Understanding the quality of routine care for adolescent depression constitutes the initial step in designing and implementing improvement strategies. This study assessed depression detection and type and duration of services for adolescents in mental health care settings. Medical record diagnosis and standardized research interview results were compared for youth seeking mental health treatment.

Organizational management: what service providers are doing while researchers are disseminating interventions.

Much of the recent discussion about how to make interventions with demonstrated effectiveness more routinely available to clients emphasizes the role of change agents in promoting service providers' use of new interventions. This study provides a complimentary perspective; it describes what happens in service provider organizations as they go about making changes in the services they provide. The data used in this study come from quarterly progress reports of participants in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.

The assertive community treatment team as a complex dynamic system of care.

This paper presents a dynamic systems view of assertive community treatment (ACT), a recognized evidence-based treatment for adults with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). It is argued that because an ACT team operates as a complex adaptive system (CAS), it engages in the organizational processes of "sensemaking" and self-organization, which help to bring order to the actions of team members and sustainability of the intervention itself. Consequently, successful implementation of ACT requires that management technologies such as meaning-creation and design are used in conjunction with traditional "command and control" technologies of policies, procedures, processes, and structures.

Mental health need and access to mental health services by youths involved with child welfare: a national survey.

Objective: This study assessed the relationship between the need for and use of mental health services among a nationally representative sample of children who were investigated by child welfare agencies after reported maltreatment.

Method: Data were collected at study entry into the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being and were weighted to provide population estimates.

Results: Nearly half (47.

Parental arrest and children involved with child welfare services agencies.

Data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being show that approximately 1 in 8 (12.5%) children who are subjects of reports of maltreatment investigated by child welfare services (CWS) agencies have parents who were recently arrested. Compared with other children who come to the attention of CWS agencies, those with arrested parents are younger, disproportionately African American, and significantly more likely tp be in out-of-home care.

Disagreement between parent and adolescent reports of functional impairment.

Objective: Adolescents' functional impairment has become increasingly important as a criterion for diagnosis and service eligibility as well as a target of therapeutic intervention in mental health settings. This study examines three critical issues in measuring functioning: 1) agreement between parent and adolescent reports of functioning, 2) explanations for disagreement, and 3) clinicians' ratings of functioning compared with parent and adolescent reports.

Methods: Agreement between parent and adolescent reports of functioning was estimated using the kappa statistic and conditional agreement in a sample of 258 adolescents.

Effects of dentalization and devoicing of the /z/ phoneme on listeners' judgment of a speaker's sexual orientation.

25 undergraduate listeners judged that a male speaker with normal speech, who dentalized (lisped) or devoiced the /z/ phoneme in the context of a sentence, sounded significantly more "gay" in terms of judged sexual orientation than did the same speaker producing /z/ without phonological processes. Speech-language pathologists should be aware of possible social consequences of speech production disorders.

Detection and outcomes of substance use disorders in adolescents seeking mental health treatment.

Objective: To compare detection rates, service use, and outcomes of substance use disorder (SUD) in adolescents seeking mental health treatment.

Method: Adolescents (n = 237) and their parents or caregivers completed parallel, self-administered versions of the Adolescent Treatment Outcomes Module (ATOM) at intake and 6-month follow-up. SUD was assessed using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC).

Case-mix adjustment of adolescent mental health treatment outcomes.

Case-mix adjustment methods are needed to account for differences between providers when the youth they treat have characteristics that adversely affect treatment success. This study explores variables for adjusting mental health treatment outcomes for adolescents and the differential effects of case-mix adjustment on providers' performance. Linear regression modeling was used to identify case-mix variables for five outcomes.

Pathways into and through mental health services for children and adolescents.

Objective: This study examined points of entry into the mental health service system for children and adolescents as well as patterns of movement through five service sectors: specialty mental health services, education, general medicine, juvenile justice, and child welfare.

Methods: The data were from the Great Smoky Mountains Study, a longitudinal epidemiologic study of mental health problems and service use among youths. The sample consisted of 1,420 youths who were nine, 11, or 13 years old at study entry.