Tools for Mental Health Care Providers

Database Profiles

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Tools for Providers

The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology offers a wide range of continuing education programs and special events throughout the year. Courses, seminars, and workshops are designed to provide psychologists, social workers, nurses, educators, and other mental health and business professionals with the knowledge they need to take their careers to the next level. Click here for Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Catalog (PDF).

Recent articles of note

The Wrong Type of Talk Therapy (New York Times, March 18, 2011). “Consumer review sites like Yelp are a wonderful resource if you're trying to find a reliable plumber or good hair salon. And they provide a great forum for customers looking to rant or rave. However, as these sites begin to cover more aspects of consumer life, complications arise — as, for instance, when people review confidential mental health care services....”

Newsletter Archive

Past issues of Project INTERFACE's newsletter, with articles on recent research and practical tips.

CANS Certification

Massachusetts Child & Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Training and Certification Login

Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP)

www.mcpap.com

MCPAP lists a number of tools for primary care providers:

• Developmental Screening Toolkit for PCPs
• A Toolkit For The Well Child Screening of Military Children
• Screening, Diagnosing, Treating,and Monitoring Child and Adolescent Depression in the Primary Care Setting
• The Primary Care Behavioral Health Toolkit includes guidelines on implementing behavioral health screenings in primary care settings, guidance on clinical issues related to screening, and information on four screening tools: M-CHAT, PSC, PEDS, and PHQ-9.
• Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC)
• Warning Signs for Parents, a toolkit that includes warning signs of ADHD, bipolar, conduct disorder, depression, eating disorders, suicide, and substance abuse.
• New AAP Clinical Guidelines for Autism Spectrum Disorders
• The Concord SPED PAC Sped Parent Basic Toolkit offers families help navigating the Massachusetts special education system.
• The CRAFFT (Car, Relax, Alone, Forget Friends, Trouble) screens for substance abuse in adolescents.

Regional School Health Coalition Crisis Intervention & Response Guide and Training Tool

Initiated in 2010, the RSHC embarked on the development of a comprehensive guide and training tool aimed at highlighting the procedural and emotional aspects of emergency response/trauma response for youth. The work is being done in collaboration within the Suicide Prevention Coalition & the Central MA Child Trauma Center Project. The Crisis Intervention and Response Resource Guide & Training Tool inventories and identifies programs, resources and protocols available to all within the region (though underutilized or unknown to some districts/agencies) as well as local/state/national resources.

Child Trends

Child Trends, an independent research center, has published Assessing the Mental Health of Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners.

Old Doc Keller's Blog

olddockeller.blogspot.com. A pediatrician reflects on the mental health of children and the systems that are trying to help them.

The Massachusetts Mental Health System

Massachusetts Comprehensive School Health Manual

www.projectinterface.org/docs/schoolhealth/start.pdf (pdf).

Libraries/Resource Centers

See our list of local libraries offering extensive mental health and wellness resources.