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- Title
Strengths Model for Youth (SM-Y) Case Management: Initial Findings on Youth Outcomes.
- Authors
Mendenhall, Amy; Grube, Whitney; Jung, EuiJin
- Abstract
Case management is a widely utilized service in both youth and adult outpatient community mental health settings. Despite its widespread use, previous findings suggest that youth case management often lacks empirically tested models or frameworks. This article presents the results of a pilot study that involved adapting the Strengths Model, an adult case management model, for the child and adolescent outpatient community mental health population. The newly adapted model, known as the Strengths Model for Youth (SM-Y), was implemented in an urban community mental health center across five different youth case management teams. To assess changes over time in youth receiving SM-Y case management, marginal maximum likelihood multilevel modeling with adaptive Gaussian quadrature methods was applied. The study focused on three domains: socialization, education, and hospitalization. Utilizing the logit link function and Bernoulli conditional distribution due to the binary nature of the outcome data, three individual trajectories were drawn for socialization, education, and hospitalization. Positive findings indicated increases in socialization and educational performance among children and adolescents.
- Subjects
MENTAL illness treatment; STATISTICAL models; CONCEPTUAL models; MENTAL health services; HUMAN services programs; EDUCATION; MEDICAL case management; PILOT projects; HOSPITAL care; MENTAL illness; PSYCHOLOGY; TEENAGERS' conduct of life; ATTITUDES toward mental illness; METROPOLITAN areas; SOCIALIZATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
- Publication
Community Mental Health Journal, 2024, Vol 60, Issue 6, p1141
- ISSN
0010-3853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10597-024-01265-8