J Curtis McMillen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5940529 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Curtis McMillen |
| NOMBRES | J Curtis |
| APELLIDO | McMillen |
| FIRMA | MCMILLEN J C |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1527-6205 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 249 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Acceptability and preliminary impact of a school-based SEL program for rural children in China
Four Frames for Choosing Performance Metrics for Child and Family Service Programs
This article provides guidance for child and family service organizations seeking to develop useful performance metrics for their programs. It describes four frames for this work, based on strategic planning, decision points, logic modeling, and implementation science. These four frameworks are applied to two cases, an afterschool program and a therapeutic foster care program. Additional considerations are provided for reducing potential metrics …
Methods to Improve the Selection and Tailoring of Implementation Strategies
Behavioral health needs and service use among those who've aged-out of foster care
An Emotion Regulation Framework for Child Welfare Intervention and Programming
The capacity to regulate emotional states is a key building block of human development and one that is impaired among many children involved in the child welfare system. This article explores how the literature on emotion regulation can inform child welfare practice. While the concept of emotion regulation and its measurement suffer from a number of problems, the literature provides a scientifically validated, if complicated, view of how some chi…
Implementation strategies
Implementation strategies have unparalleled importance in implementation science, as they constitute the 'how to' component of changing healthcare practice. Yet, implementation researchers and other stakeholders are not able to fully utilize the findings of studies focusing on implementation strategies because they are often inconsistently labelled and poorly described, are rarely justified theoretically, lack operational definitions or manuals t…
Mental Health Clinicians' Experiences of Implementing Evidence-Based Treatments
Implementation research has tremendous potential to bridge the research-practice gap; however, we know more about barriers to evidence-based care than the factors that contribute to the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based treatments. In this qualitative study the authors explore the experiences of clinicians (N = 11) who were implementing evidence-based treatments, highlighting the factors that they perceived to be most critical to succ…
Pregnancy risk among older youth transitioning out of foster care
A Compilation of Strategies for Implementing Clinical Innovations in Health and Mental Health
Efforts to identify, develop, refine, and test strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based treatments have been prioritized in order to improve the quality of health and mental health care delivery. However, this task is complicated by an implementation science literature characterized by inconsistent language use and inadequate descriptions of implementation strategies. This article brings more depth and clarity to implementation rese…
The data behind the dissemination
Stepping down and stepping in
Conceptualizing the step-down for foster youth approaching adulthood
Substance use and substance use disorders as foster youth transition to adulthood
Natural mentoring and psychosocial outcomes among older youth transitioning from foster care
Older youth leaving the foster care system
Funneling Child Welfare Consumers into and through the Mental Health System
This qualitative study explores how consumers of child welfare services reach nonpsychiatric mental health providers and the perceived quality of these services. It relies on iterative interviews with individuals and groups, as well as on court observations from one metropolitan area. Results suggest that, consistent with theories of street-level bureaucracy, efficiency issues drive mental health service use, as clients are routinely subjected to…
Aging Out of Foster Care and Legal Involvement
This article uses data from a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to explore variation in the risk of legal involvement among youths who have aged out of the child welfare system. Employing latent class analysis, it empirically derives subgroups of youths with common or shared characteristics of risk. The analyses identify four distinct subgroups: the low‐risk, moderate‐risk, high‐risk externalizing psychopathology, and high‐r…
Substance use and abuse among older youth in foster care
Dating violence among emancipating foster youth
Predisposition to seek mental health care among Black males transitioning from foster care
Quality of Care
For social work practitioners to engage fully in efforts designed to improve the quality of social services, they need to understand what is meant by quality of care, grapple with its complexity, and know how to identify and leverage the key factors most likely to influence it. This article introduces a conceptual model that articulates numerous influences on the quality of social services. It details the macrosystem, consumer, advocacy, organiza…
Religious Involvement and Its Association to Risk Behaviors among Older Youth in Foster Care
This study examined religious involvement and its association to risk behaviors (sexual behavior, marijuana use, alcohol use, and cigarette use) among older youth in foster care ( N =383). Three dimensions of religious involvement were assessed—church or religious service attendance, religious practices, and religious beliefs. Findings showed that gender, ethnic group membership, sexual abuse history, and placement type were significantly associa…
Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among Older Youths in the Foster Care System
Quality of Care in the Social Services
In an era of heightened accountability, remarkably little is known empirically about the quality of social work services. This article applies insights from health services research to propose a research agenda on the quality of care in the social services. The agenda calls for studies that address the definition of quality service, variations in quality, the relationship between quality service and outcomes, structural influences on quality, and…
Use of Mental Health Services Among Older Youths in Foster Care
OBJECTIVE: This study examined lifetime, 12-month, and current mental health service use among older youths in the foster care system and examined variations in mental health care by race, gender, maltreatment history, living situation, and geographic region. METHOD: The Service Assessment for Children and Adolescents, the Child Trauma Questionnaire, and the Diagnostic Interview Schedule were used in interviews with 406 youths in Missouri's foste…
Natural mentoring and psychosocial outcomes among older youth transitioning from foster care
Older youth leaving the foster care system
Aging Out of Foster Care and Legal Involvement
This article uses data from a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to explore variation in the risk of legal involvement among youths who have aged out of the child welfare system. Employing latent class analysis, it empirically derives subgroups of youths with common or shared characteristics of risk. The analyses identify four distinct subgroups: the low‐risk, moderate‐risk, high‐risk externalizing psychopathology, and high‐r…
Pregnancy risk among older youth transitioning out of foster care
Substance use and substance use disorders as foster youth transition to adulthood
The Perceived Benefit Scales
If social work researchers are to accurately describe the psychosocial functioning of clients who experience negative events, they need to consider positive as well as negative outcomes. In this article, new measures of self-reported positive life changes after traumatic stressors are introduced. Factor analyses suggest that the Perceived Benefit Scales consist of eight subscales: lifestyle changes; material gain; and increases in self-efficacy, …
Funneling Child Welfare Consumers into and through the Mental Health System
This qualitative study explores how consumers of child welfare services reach nonpsychiatric mental health providers and the perceived quality of these services. It relies on iterative interviews with individuals and groups, as well as on court observations from one metropolitan area. Results suggest that, consistent with theories of street-level bureaucracy, efficiency issues drive mental health service use, as clients are routinely subjected to…
Quality of Care
For social work practitioners to engage fully in efforts designed to improve the quality of social services, they need to understand what is meant by quality of care, grapple with its complexity, and know how to identify and leverage the key factors most likely to influence it. This article introduces a conceptual model that articulates numerous influences on the quality of social services. It details the macrosystem, consumer, advocacy, organiza…
Better for It
Recently, researchers in several different fields have discovered that people who have experienced seriously adverse events frequently report that they were positively changed by the experience. Respondents in these studies typically have reported a variety of different benefits and have reported that they also were harmed by the same experiences. The research suggests several processes that may account for these reports of benefit: purposeful ch…
Stepping down and stepping in
Quality of Care in the Social Services
In an era of heightened accountability, remarkably little is known empirically about the quality of social work services. This article applies insights from health services research to propose a research agenda on the quality of care in the social services. The agenda calls for studies that address the definition of quality service, variations in quality, the relationship between quality service and outcomes, structural influences on quality, and…
Behavioral health needs and service use among those who've aged-out of foster care
Religious Involvement and Its Association to Risk Behaviors among Older Youth in Foster Care
This study examined religious involvement and its association to risk behaviors (sexual behavior, marijuana use, alcohol use, and cigarette use) among older youth in foster care ( N =383). Three dimensions of religious involvement were assessed—church or religious service attendance, religious practices, and religious beliefs. Findings showed that gender, ethnic group membership, sexual abuse history, and placement type were significantly associa…
Predisposition to seek mental health care among Black males transitioning from foster care
Conceptualizing the step-down for foster youth approaching adulthood
Dating violence among emancipating foster youth
Mental Health Clinicians' Experiences of Implementing Evidence-Based Treatments
Implementation research has tremendous potential to bridge the research-practice gap; however, we know more about barriers to evidence-based care than the factors that contribute to the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based treatments. In this qualitative study the authors explore the experiences of clinicians (N = 11) who were implementing evidence-based treatments, highlighting the factors that they perceived to be most critical to succ…
An Emotion Regulation Framework for Child Welfare Intervention and Programming
The capacity to regulate emotional states is a key building block of human development and one that is impaired among many children involved in the child welfare system. This article explores how the literature on emotion regulation can inform child welfare practice. While the concept of emotion regulation and its measurement suffer from a number of problems, the literature provides a scientifically validated, if complicated, view of how some chi…
Breaking Intergenerational Cycles
Despite the fact that social workers are often asked to intervene with families experiencing intergenerational problems, social work theories lack specificity about how to deal with them. Several key intergenerational issues are discussed, including cross-generational discontinuities, cross-typal transmission, and issues of what is transmitted and how. Six different theories are assessed on their ability to address these issues and develop meanin…
Breaking Intergenerational Cycles
Despite the fact that social workers are often asked to intervene with families experiencing intergenerational problems, social work theories lack specificity about how to deal with them. Several key intergenerational issues are discussed, including cross-generational discontinuities, cross-typal transmission, and issues of what is transmitted and how. Six different theories are assessed on their ability to address these issues and develop meanin…
Perceived benefit and mental health after three types of disaster.
The Perceived Benefit Scales
If social work researchers are to accurately describe the psychosocial functioning of clients who experience negative events, they need to consider positive as well as negative outcomes. In this article, new measures of self-reported positive life changes after traumatic stressors are introduced. Factor analyses suggest that the Perceived Benefit Scales consist of eight subscales: lifestyle changes; material gain; and increases in self-efficacy, …
Better for It
Recently, researchers in several different fields have discovered that people who have experienced seriously adverse events frequently report that they were positively changed by the experience. Respondents in these studies typically have reported a variety of different benefits and have reported that they also were harmed by the same experiences. The research suggests several processes that may account for these reports of benefit: purposeful ch…
Mental Health Problems and Sexual Abuse Among Adolescents in Foster Care
Use of Mental Health Services Among Older Youths in Foster Care
OBJECTIVE: This study examined lifetime, 12-month, and current mental health service use among older youths in the foster care system and examined variations in mental health care by race, gender, maltreatment history, living situation, and geographic region. METHOD: The Service Assessment for Children and Adolescents, the Child Trauma Questionnaire, and the Diagnostic Interview Schedule were used in interviews with 406 youths in Missouri's foste…
Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among Older Youths in the Foster Care System
Quality of Care in the Social Services
In an era of heightened accountability, remarkably little is known empirically about the quality of social work services. This article applies insights from health services research to propose a research agenda on the quality of care in the social services. The agenda calls for studies that address the definition of quality service, variations in quality, the relationship between quality service and outcomes, structural influences on quality, and…
Religious Involvement and Its Association to Risk Behaviors among Older Youth in Foster Care
This study examined religious involvement and its association to risk behaviors (sexual behavior, marijuana use, alcohol use, and cigarette use) among older youth in foster care ( N =383). Three dimensions of religious involvement were assessed—church or religious service attendance, religious practices, and religious beliefs. Findings showed that gender, ethnic group membership, sexual abuse history, and placement type were significantly associa…
Substance use and abuse among older youth in foster care
Dating violence among emancipating foster youth
Predisposition to seek mental health care among Black males transitioning from foster care
Quality of Care
For social work practitioners to engage fully in efforts designed to improve the quality of social services, they need to understand what is meant by quality of care, grapple with its complexity, and know how to identify and leverage the key factors most likely to influence it. This article introduces a conceptual model that articulates numerous influences on the quality of social services. It details the macrosystem, consumer, advocacy, organiza…
Older youth leaving the foster care system
Funneling Child Welfare Consumers into and through the Mental Health System
This qualitative study explores how consumers of child welfare services reach nonpsychiatric mental health providers and the perceived quality of these services. It relies on iterative interviews with individuals and groups, as well as on court observations from one metropolitan area. Results suggest that, consistent with theories of street-level bureaucracy, efficiency issues drive mental health service use, as clients are routinely subjected to…
Aging Out of Foster Care and Legal Involvement
This article uses data from a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to explore variation in the risk of legal involvement among youths who have aged out of the child welfare system. Employing latent class analysis, it empirically derives subgroups of youths with common or shared characteristics of risk. The analyses identify four distinct subgroups: the low‐risk, moderate‐risk, high‐risk externalizing psychopathology, and high‐r…
Natural mentoring and psychosocial outcomes among older youth transitioning from foster care
Substance use and substance use disorders as foster youth transition to adulthood
A Compilation of Strategies for Implementing Clinical Innovations in Health and Mental Health
Efforts to identify, develop, refine, and test strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based treatments have been prioritized in order to improve the quality of health and mental health care delivery. However, this task is complicated by an implementation science literature characterized by inconsistent language use and inadequate descriptions of implementation strategies. This article brings more depth and clarity to implementation rese…
The data behind the dissemination
Stepping down and stepping in
Conceptualizing the step-down for foster youth approaching adulthood
Implementation strategies
Implementation strategies have unparalleled importance in implementation science, as they constitute the 'how to' component of changing healthcare practice. Yet, implementation researchers and other stakeholders are not able to fully utilize the findings of studies focusing on implementation strategies because they are often inconsistently labelled and poorly described, are rarely justified theoretically, lack operational definitions or manuals t…
Mental Health Clinicians' Experiences of Implementing Evidence-Based Treatments
Implementation research has tremendous potential to bridge the research-practice gap; however, we know more about barriers to evidence-based care than the factors that contribute to the adoption and sustainability of evidence-based treatments. In this qualitative study the authors explore the experiences of clinicians (N = 11) who were implementing evidence-based treatments, highlighting the factors that they perceived to be most critical to succ…
Pregnancy risk among older youth transitioning out of foster care
Psychology (26 obras) · Medicine (22 obras) · Nursing (17 obras) · Child Welfare and Adoption (14 obras) · Foster care (14 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Mental health (11 obras) · Business (10 obras) · Child Abuse and Trauma (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras)