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Investing in Children's Mental Health offers an in-depth investigation of the currently available mental health interventions and argues for what more practitioners, child-serving organizations, policymakers, and other stakeholders can do to help future populations.
List of contents
- Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Invest in Children's Mental Health?
- Chapter 2: Overview of Current Evidence and Practice
- Chapter 3: Home Visiting Programs
- Chapter 4: Parent Training Programs
- Chapter 5: School-based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs
- Chapter 6: Multisystemic Therapy: The Fluorescent Light Bulb Not Everyone is Using
- Chapter 7: Communities that Care
- Chapter 8: Lessons Learned and Remaining Questions
- Chapter 9: A Path towards Better Investments
- Notes Index
About the author
Daniel Eisenberg is a health economist and professor at University of California, Los Angeles. His goal is to improve understanding of how to invest effectively in the mental health of young people. He is the founder and a Principal Investigator for the Healthy Minds Study, a leading national study of mental health in college populations in the U.S.
Ramesh Raghavan is a child mental health services researcher at New York University. He has led several studies on access to, and quality of, mental health services for vulnerable child populations, primarily those in the child welfare system. Dr. Raghavan earned his PhD in Health Services from the University of California, Los Angeles, his MD in Psychiatry from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, India, and his bachelor's degree from Stanley Medical College, Tamil Nadu Medical University, India.
Summary
Investing in Children's Mental Health offers an in-depth investigation of the currently available mental health interventions and argues for what more practitioners, child-serving organizations, policymakers, and other stakeholders can do to help future populations.
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Investing in strategies that promote children's mental health is the most profitable choice that societies can make. In this highly engaging and readable book, Professors Eisenberg and Raghavan present a roadmap of why and how to make such investments, investments that I urge my fellow policymakers to support in order to better the lives of children within their countries and communities.
