PURPOSE: To review the literature on young people's perspectives on health care with a
view to defining domains and indicators of youth-friendly care. METHODS: Three …

There is urgent need for improvement in community-based mental health care for children
and families. Multiple studies have documented serious limitations in the effectiveness of …

Parenting stress is relevant to the development, maintenance, and amelioration of youth
mental, emotional, and behavioral health issues. This Evidence Base Update evaluates the …

Comprehensive yet accessible, this text provides a practical introduction to the skills,
attitudes, and methods required to assess the worth and value of human services offered in …

Identifying predictors of evidence-based practice (EBP) use, such as supervision processes
and therapist characteristics, may support dissemination. Therapists (N= 57) received …

Background Mental health outcome measures are used to monitor the quality and
effectiveness of mental health services. There is also a growing expectation for …

This exploratory qualitative study describes treatment barriers to receiving family-focused
child mental health services for youths with disruptive behavior problems from multiple …

The development of 'youth-friendly'services has become a priority across a wide range of
health-care contexts. However, relatively few studies have specifically examined users' …

Accessible summary Despite increasing focus on researching users' experiences of mental
health provision, there are few studies which report adolescents and parents' experiences of …

This text provides a solid foundation in program evaluation, covering the main components
of evaluating agencies and their programs, how best to address those components, and the …