This text explores community interventions for youth with serious emotional disorders. These interventions include home-based services, intensive case management, crisis care, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic group homes and community mentors. Part of the series on Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery with Vulnerable Populations.

Part 1: Context ; 1. Reasons for Hope for Children and Families: A Perspective and Overview ; 2. Community-Based Interventions in a System of Care and Outcomes Framework ; Part 2: Comprehensive Interventions ; 3. What Is Case Management? ; 4. The Wraparound Approach ; 5. Multisystemic Therapy ; 6. Treatment Foster Care ; 7. Mentoring to Facilitate Resiliency in High-Risk Youth ; 8. Family Support and Education ; Part 3: Targeted Interventions in Education, Substance Abuse and Mental Health ; 9. Special Education: Best Practices and First Step to Success ; 10. Integrated Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy for Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Substance Abuse ; 11. An Annotated Bibliography of Evidence for Diagnostic-Specific Psychosocial and Psychopharmacological Interventions ; 12. Psychopharmacology in the Context of Systems of Care ; Part 4: Conclusion and Commentary ; 13. Policy Implications Relevant to Implementing Evidence-Based Treatment ; 14. A Profitable Conjunction: From Science to Service in Children's Mental Health

"The authors seek to develop a collaborative process among theoreticians, researchers and practitioners committed to the provision of effective children's mental health services that recognizes and draws on the knowledge and experience of each. Since this book was published in 2002, each of the models presented has been further developed and researched, sometimes raising questions about the model's original conceptualization, application or demonstrated effectiveness."--Research on Social Work Practice