Editorial Perspective: Reaching beyond the clinic: leveraging implementation science to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services
Year: 2019
Type: editorial
Abstract: The mental health treatment gap for children and adolescents worldwide calls for implementation science research to help bring evidence-based interventions into practice. Given the near absence of services specific to child and adolescent mental health in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries, we recommend that implementation research for child and adolescent mental health extend beyond mental health clinics and primary care settings and focus on implementing, adopting, and sustaining integrated interventions from prevention to treatment, delivered by lay health workers, across sectors. We depict through selected examples what this research looks like in practice, highlight gaps in implementation research specific to children and adolescents, and make recommendations for future research. Child and adolescent focused mental health research informed by an implementation framework can generate effective solutions and increase the well-being of children worldwide.
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13017
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: PRIDE SSA - Partnerships in Research to Implement and Disseminate Sustainable and Scalable Evidence Based Practices in sub-Saharan Africa, Implementing treatment for adolescent depression in Ugandan schools, Global Mental Health (GMH) Research Fellowship: Interventions that Make a Difference
OpenAlex ID: W2944899456