With the return of troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, increasing numbers of civilian behavioral health providers are treating veterans and their families for service-related conditions. However, little is known about civilian providers' capacity to meet the needs of this population. A statewide needs assessment of 1,665 clinicians examined their screening/referral practices, knowledge and confid...

Family support programs aim to improve parent wellbeing and parenting as well as adolescent mental and behavioral health by addressing the needs of parents of adolescents experiencing or at risk for mental health problems. Family support programs can be part of the treatment for adolescents diagnosed with mental or behavioral health problems, or family support programs can be delivered as preve...

Behavioral health agencies will soon implement automated information-management systems to support their administrative, financial, and clinical care functions. Assessing current information-management capabilities and delineating future needs are prerequisite to recommending a specific information technology solution. Quantifying the discrepancy between current information-management capabilit...

KEY FEATURES: Multidisciplinary team-based approach to addressing patients’ medical, behavioral, and social needs. At the heart of the Intensive Outpatient Care Program (IOCP) is the care coordinator, who links patients to primary, specialty, and ancillary services; provides tools for effective self-management; guides participants through development of a shared action plan; and provides connec...

As a country with large population in the world, China is currently aging. This paper starts from basic needs of elderly's care environment, and takes psychological needs, physiological behavioral as starting point, explores ecological design community landscape under background aging to meet many today's population.

one of the most important issues in educational psychology is school engagement and academic achievement among students. based on self system model, a set of contextual factors (relations with teachers like perceived autonomy, structure, and involvement) through personal psychological characteristics (autonomy, relatedness, competence) is related to school engagement. the purpose of this study ...

Specifying virtual components at the behavioral level appears as the most promising solution to achieve a real efficiency of design reuse. In this paper we propose a methodology to specify and use Behavioral Level IP (BL-IP). Thus, IP designer tasks are easier due to the unified representation offered by this level of abstraction. The genericity of a behavioral IP permits efficient optimization...