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Outcomes and Findings of Program Evaluation for the Intensive Mental Health Program

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We describe changes in adaptive functioning for children enrolled in the Intensive Mental Health Program (IMHP), an innovative model for serving children with the most severe forms of SED. Most children show marked improvements in multiple indicators of role performance and symptomatology. Although a high risk, high need group, most children attended school regularly and lived with a stable caregiver at discharge.

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  1. Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA

    Eric M. Vernberg, Michael C. Roberts, Anne K. Jacobs, Camille J. Randall & Bridget K. Biggs

  2. The Hope Institute for Children and Families, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA

    Joseph E. Nyre

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Vernberg, E.M., Roberts, M.C., Jacobs, A.K. et al. Outcomes and Findings of Program Evaluation for the Intensive Mental Health Program. J Child Fam Stud 17, 178–190 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-007-9158-x

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