Main description:

Youth residential mental health care is often a last resort after a long time searching for help. Despite engaging with residential care, moving from residential mental health programs to life in the community, many youth still confront disturbing prospects. Incorporating vignettes, chapter summaries, as well as theory and evidence in fields such as education, juvenile justice, child welfare, independent living, supporting families, and positive youth development, this book proposes a template that is both credible and feasible for improving community living outcomes for youth leaving residential mental health programs.

Contents:

1. Residential Mental Health Programs for Youth: Necessary but Not Sufficient
2. Community Adaptation of Children and Youth Accessing Residential Mental Health Treatment
3. Theories and Concepts Relating to Community Adaptation
4. Pathways and Programs to Improve Youth Educational Processes and Outcomes
5. Delinquency Pathways and Programs
6. Family
7. Youth Transitions from Substitute Care: Outcomes, Pathways, and Programs
8. Systems of Care for Youth
9. A Case for an Integrated Program

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