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Practice Corner

The Practice Corner includes practitioner-oriented summaries of publications from SCCAP’s journals. The pieces summarize the articles and provide key takeaways for practice, including a link to the full article and, where relevant, other related clinical resources.

Practice Corner: Forty Years of Engagement Research in Children’s Mental Health Services: Multidimensional Measurement and Practice Elements

Practice Corner Author: Taylor N. Stephens, M.S., Palo Alto University Article Title: Forty Years of Engagement Research in Children’s Mental Health Services: Multidimensional Measurement and Practice Elements Article Authors: Kimberly D. Becker, Maya Boustani, Resham Gellatly, & Bruce F. Chorpita ...
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Practice Corner: Community Therapist Reports of Client Engagement Challenges During the Implementation of Multiple EBPs in Children’s Mental Health

Practice Corner: Community Therapist Reports of Client Engagement Challenges During the Implementation of Multiple EBPs in Children’s Mental Health ...
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Practice Corner: Stability and Predictive Validity of the Parent-Child Sleep Interactions Scale: A Longitudinal Study Among Preschoolers

Practice Corner: Stability and Predictive Validity of the Parent-Child Sleep Interactions Scale: A Longitudinal Study Among Preschoolers ...
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Practice Corner: A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Child-Centered Therapy for Child Anxiety Disorders

Practice Corner: A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Child-Centered Therapy for Child Anxiety Disorders ...
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Practice Corner: Impressions of “Evidence-Based Practice”: A direct-to-consumer survey of caregivers concerned about adolescent substance use

Impressions of “Evidence-Based Practice”: A direct-to-consumer survey of caregivers concerned about adolescent substance use ...
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Practice Corner: Predicting Future Suicide Attempts Among Adolescent and Emerging Adult Psychiatric Emergency Patients

Many studies focus on the suicidality of adolescents in a general outpatient setting, while this study targets a subset of young people who present to the hospital for a psychiatric emergency. Not only does this article examine risk factors associated ...
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Practice Corner: Disseminating Evidence-Based Practices for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Web-Based Initiative.

This article describes the SCCAP’s efforts to increase dissemination of EBPs for youth via a web-based initiative (INDICES). The authors outline practical recommendations for youth-serving professionals to capitalize on the benefits of INDICES in their work with youth and families ...
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Psychometrics of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale for DSM-5 for Trauma-Exposed Children and Adolescents

This article describes two newly validated versions of the Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS) that can be administered quickly to reliably screen for probable PTSD diagnosis ...
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Discredited Assessment and Treatment Methods Used with Children and Adolescents: A Delphi Poll

While there are a lot of resources available to tell you about assessments and treatments that you should be using, it is much more difficult to identify assessments and treatments that you should not be using. This article contains lists ...
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