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Case management is a widely utilized service in both youth and adult outpatient community mental health settings. Despite its widespread use, previous findings suggest that youth case management often lacks empirically tested models or frameworks. This article presents the results of a pilot study that involved adapting the Strengths Model, an adult case management model, for the child and adolescent outpatient community mental health population. The newly adapted model, known as the Strengths Model for Youth (SM-Y), was implemented in an urban community mental health center across five different youth case management teams. To assess changes over time in youth receiving SM-Y case management, marginal maximum likelihood multilevel modeling with adaptive Gaussian quadrature methods was applied. The study focused on three domains: socialization, education, and hospitalization. Utilizing the logit link function and Bernoulli conditional distribution due to the binary nature of the outcome data, three individual trajectories were drawn for socialization, education, and hospitalization. Positive findings indicated increases in socialization and educational performance among children and adolescents.
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This study is part of project funded by the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services; project number KAN0073128.
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All authors contributed to the study analysis, reporting, and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by Dr. Whitney Grube, Dr. Amy Mendenhall, and Dr. EuiJin Jung. The first draft of the manuscript was written by study all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Mendenhall, A., Grube, W. & Jung, E. Strengths Model for Youth (SM-Y) Case Management: Initial Findings on Youth Outcomes. Community Ment Health J (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-024-01265-8
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