The Child Welfare System's Response to the National Mental Health Crisis.

The nation's child welfare system serves the most vulnerable youth and families and so has been impacted dramatically by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic with decreases of abuse reporting, delayed toward permanency, and increased disproportionality. Youth in foster care have increased likelihood of boarding in hospital emergency rooms or nontraditional placements. These issues are magnified in exceptional vulnerable populations such as American Indian and Alaska Native children.

Strengthening Support for Community Mental Health Programs Through Partnership and Collective Impact.

Effective partnerships can profoundly impact outcomes for youth with behavioral health concerns. Partnerships occur at multiple levels - at the individual, organizational, state, and national levels. The Systems of Care (SOC) framework helps to conceptualize and articulate the skills necessary for forming partnerships in youth's mental health.

From Family Therapy to Family Intervention.

For many, family therapy refers to sessions in which all family members are present. Yet in contemporary psychiatry there are many ways to work with families in addition to this classic concept. This article proposes family intervention as an encompassing term for a new family paradigm in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Family intervention as a developmental psychodynamic therapy.

Families are the context for development. One key way families influence developing children is through family experience, which becomes part of the child's inner world. It is through this cognitive template that the child interprets the world and negotiates developmental challenges.

Psychosocial perspectives in the treatment of pediatric chronic pain.

Chronic pain in children and adolescents is associated with major disruption to developmental experiences crucial to personal adjustment, quality of life, academic, vocational and social success. Caring for these patients involves understanding cognitive, affective, social and family dynamic factors associated with persistent pain syndromes. Evaluation and treatment necessitate a comprehensive multimodal approach including psychological and behavioral interventions that maximize return to more developmentally appropriate physical, academic and social activities.