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Supports & services for young people with mental health issues: here's what works
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Transition of Youth and Young Adults with Emotional or Behavioral Difficulties
An Evidence-Supported Handbook
Edited by Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark, Ph.D., & Deanne K. Unruh, Ph.D.
| "An outstanding, empirically-based guide ... The co-authors of each chapter include professionals as well as youth and family members who have wrestled with education and other service delivery systems, providing credibility and insight not found in most texts." —Peter E. Leone, Ph.D., Professor, University of Maryland, Department of Special Education, Secondary Education – Behavior Disorders
"The voices of the students throughout the handbook speak to the realities and challenges of good transition planning practices. A great handbook for anyone interested in transition and improving the post school lives of young adults with disabilities." —Ed O'Leary, Ed.D., Program Specialist, Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center, Logan, Utah
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As youth with emotional or behavioral difficulties transition from school and home settings, they face the complex challenges and expectations of adult life: finding and maintaining work, establishing new relationships, building a career, and more. This comprehensive professional handbook will help transition specialists, general and special educators, school psychologists, and administrators support youth and young adults in setting goals and achieving positive outcomes across employment, education, and community settings.
Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of contributors—practitioners, educators, researchers, administrators, parents, and young people themselves—this book collects our best, most current knowledge on supporting transitions for young people with mental health issues. Through up-to-date research and in-depth analyses of five successful transition programs, readers will discover how to
- apply evidence-supported practices to guide youth and young adults through the transition obstacle course
- bridge the gap between child and adult mental health services for consistent, coordinated care
- ensure effective adult services that are developmentally and culturally appropriate
- address system fragmentation, so the mental health, education, justice, and other systems can work together to serve children's best interests
- implement strategies for the transition from high school to meaningful employment or postsecondary training
- use peer supports to reach, engage, and coach young people as they move into adulthood
- reduce common risk behaviors through skillful prevention planning
- fund and sustain services and supports through a creative combination of federal, state, local, and private dollars
- implement a Continuous Quality Improvement process to recognize needs, build on strengths, and make required changes
Vignettes and first-person testimonials throughout the book strengthen readers' awareness of the challenges young people experience and how effective transition services can make a difference. Detailed examinations of program, system, policy, and research needs will help professionals shape the future of mental health supports—and ensure the best possible adult lives for the young people they serve.
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ORDERING INFO
ISBN 978-1-55766-963-6
Paperback
approx. 384 pages
6 x 9
2009 / $34.95
Stock# 69636
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Table of Contents
About the Editors
Contributors
Foreword
Gary M. Blau & Diane L. Sondheimer
Introduction to Transition to Adulthood Issues and the Evidence-Supported Handbook
Understanding and Addressing the Needs of Transition-Age Youth and Young Adults and Their Families
Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark & Deanne K. Unruh
Section I: Challenges and Effective Transition Systems
Chapter 1: The Service System Obstacle Course for Transition-Age Youth and Young Adults
Maryann Davis, Melanie Green, & Cheri Hoffman
Chapter 2: Navigating the Obstacle Course: An Evidence-Supported Community Transition System
Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark & Karen Hart
Section II: Community Initiatives: Evidence-Supported and Enduring Transition Programs
Chapter 3: Partnerships for Youth Transition: Creating Options for Youth and Their Families
DeDe Sieler, Spencer Orso, & Deanne K. Unruh
Chapter 4: High School and Community College Partnerships with Vocational Rehabilitation
K. Brigid Flannery, Lauren Lindstrom, & Michael Toricellas
Chapter 5: Serving Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Challenges From Dependency Programs and Community Settings
Marc A. Fagan, Wayne Munchel, Isiah Rogers, & Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark
Chapter 6: Improving the Transition Outcomes of Adolescent Young Offenders
Deanne K. Unruh, Miriam G. Waintrup, Tim Canter, & Sinjin Smith
Chapter 7: More than Friends: Peer Supports for Youth and Young Adults to Promote Discovery and Recovery
Lisa B. Galasso, Amy Arrell, Paul Webb, Samuel Landsman, David Holmes, Kimberly Frick, Luke Bradford Knowles, Crystal Fair-Judson, Rebecca Smith, & Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark
Section III: Improving Practice, System, and Policy
Chapter 8: Prevention Planning: Collaborating with Youth and Young Adults to Reduce Risk Behavior and Related Harm
Mason G. Haber, Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark, & Ryan Parenteau
Chapter 9: Policy, Funding, and Sustainability: Issues and Recommendations for Promoting Effective Transition Systems
Cheri Hoffman, Craig Anne Heflinger, Michele Athay, & Maryann Davis
Chapter 10: Collaborative Approach to Quality Improvement in Process, Progress, and Outcomes: Sustaining a Responsive and Effective Transition System
Karyn L. Dresser, Peter J. Zucker, Robin A. Orlando, Alexandra A. Krynski, Gwendolyn White, Arun Karpur, Nicole Deschênes, & Deanne K. Unruh
Section IV: Future Focus: Advancing the Transition Agenda
Chapter 11: Futures Focus: Practice, Program, System, Policy, and Research
Deanne K. Unruh & Hewitt B. "Rusty" Clark
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