Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About

by Epstein; Irwin

• ISBN13: 9780789026743
• ISBN10: 0789026740
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Learn how to better clinically serve risky” adolescents--from the clients themselves! Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About explores the research on adolescent behavior culled from the answers to a clinician-designed intake questionnaire given to adolescent clients asking how they view their own risks, what they worry about, and what they wish to talk about. Respected authorities discuss the enlightening findings and present ways to reshape services, taking into account customer preference, risk and worry, and youth development (YD) perspectives while presenting practical clinical strategies to engage at-risk adolescents in mental health treatment. Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About provides conceptual models that practitioners and organizations can use to develop reflective practices and to understand better how to engage adolescent clients in treatment. The book includes three case studies that illustrate an organization's experience in developing ways for organizational learning, including the clinicians' own accounts of their experience in conducting practice-based research. Two chapters describe the development and the clinical uses of the intake questionnaire and offer guidelines for other practitioners to develop their own. The book discusses specific findings about adolescent risk, worries, and desire to talk across a wide range of psychosocial domains such as education and work, sex and sexuality, safety, substance abuse, and family and friends. Other research examines adolescent risk and vulnerability profiles of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals, as well as the impact of racism. Finally, the book builds upon this empirical analysis to address the clinical challenge of engaging risky” adolescents in counseling. Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About analyzes: adolescent risks, worries, and coping adolescent help seeking and desire to talk in counseling youth development (YD) and adolescent vulnerability urban adolescents' health and mental health concerns effectively engaging adolescents in counseling collaborative strategies for clinicians and managers reflectivity and learning in human service organizations Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About presents essential information for social workers, mental health professionals who work with adolescents, adolescent researchers, pediatricians and adolescent medicine practitioners, teachers, students, and youth workers.

Table of Contents

PART I
Including At-Risk Adolescents in Their Own Health and Mental Health Care: A Youth Development Perspective	3	(20)
Angela Diaz
Ken Peake
Michael Surko
Kalpana Bhandarkar
Theoretical and Practical Imperatives for Reflective Social Work Organizations in Health and Mental Health: The Place of Practice-Based Research	23	(16)
Ken Peake
Irwin Epstein
Creating and sustaining a Practice-Based Research Group in an Urban Adolescent Mental Health Program	39	(16)
Ken Peake
Diane Mirabito
Irwin Epstein
Vincent Giannone
Development and Utilization of a Practice-Based, Adolescent Intake Questionnaire (Adquest): Surveying Which Risks, Worries, and Concerns Urban Youth Want to Talk About	55	(28)
Ken Peake
Irwin Epstein
Diane Mirabito
Michael Surko
Clinical Uses of an Adolescent Intake Questionnaire: Adquest as a Bridge to Engagement	83	(20)
Jennifer Elliott
Michael Nembhard
Vincent Giannone
Michael Surko
Daniel Medeiros
Ken Peake
Which Adolescents Need to Talk About Safety and Violence?	103	(18)
Michael Surko
Dianne Ciro
Erika Carlson
Nyanda Labor
Vincent Giannone
Elizabeth Diaz-Cruz
Ken. Peake
Irwin Epstein
Adolescents Seeking Mental Health Services: Self-Reported Health Risks and the Need to Talk	121	(14)
Daniel Medeiros
Leah Kramnick
Elizabeth Diaz-Cruz
Michael Surko
Angela Diaz
Adolescents' Need to Talk About Sex and Sexuality in an Urban Mental Health Setting	135	(20)
Nyanda Labor
Daniel Medeiros
Erika Carlson
Nancimarie Pullo
Mavis Seehaus
Ken Peake
Irwin Epstein
Adolescents' Need to Talk About School and Work in Mental Health Treatment	155	(16)
Elizabeth Diaz-Cruz
Daniel Medeiros
Michael Surko
Ruth Hoffman
Irwin Epstein
Adolescents' Self-Reported Substance Risks and Need to Talk About Them in Mental Health Counseling	171	(20)
Daniel Medeiros
Erika Carlson
Michael Surko
Nicole Munoz
Monique Castillo
Irwin Epstein
Adolescents' Self-Reported Risk Factors and Desire to Talk About Family and Friends: Implications for Practice and Research	191	(22)
Vincent Giannone
Daniel Medeiros
Jennifer Elliott
Caroline Perez
Erika Carlson
Irwin Epstein
PART II
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Sexual-Orientation Questioning Adolescents Seeking Mental Health Services: Risk Factors, Worries, and Desire to Talk About Them	213	(22)
Dianne Ciro
Michael Surko
Kalpana Bhandarkar
Nora Helfgott
Ken Peake
Irwin Epstein
Experience of Racism as a Correlate of Developmental and Health Outcomes Among Urban Adolescent Mental Health Clients	235	(26)
Michael Surko
Dianne Ciro
Caryl Blackwood
Michael Nembhard
Ken Peake
Multiple Risks, Multiple Worries, and Adolescent Coping: What Clinicians Need to Ask About	261	(26)
Michael Surko
Ken Peake
Irwin Epstein
Daniel Medeiros
Data-Mining Client Concerns in Adolescent Mental Health Services: Clinical and Program Implications	287	(18)
Ken Peake
Michael Surko
Irwin Epstein
Daniel Medeiros
Collaborative Data-Mining in an Adolescent Mental Health Service: Clinicians Speak of Their Experience	305	(14)
Dianne Ciro
Michael Nembhard
Index	319