Child and Youth Mental Health

The implementation of the interRAI Collaborative Action Plans to improve outcomes for children and youth exposed to domestic violence

Western University is evaluating an innovative set of tools that assess the health needs of children between the ages of four to 18 who have experienced family violence. Supporting the use of evidence-informed and community-based interventions, the goal of the project is to facilitate greater information sharing, collaboration and service integration across organizations with the overall objective to improve mental health care for children and youth. 

Website: www.interrai.org/child-and-youth-mental-health.html 

Project at a glance:

Factsheet

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and Youth Mental Health

What we found:

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Final report:

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Community of Practice Members

Shannon Stewart, Western University

Alan Leschied, Western University

Yasmin Garad, Western University

Project Resources

Stewart, S.L., Cloutier, S., King, G. et al. Evaluating a Trauma-Informed Care Training Program for Mental Health Clinicians. Journ Child Adol Trauma 17, 981–998 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-024-00639-0

Stewart, S. L., Graham, A. A., & Poss, J. W. (2023). Examining the mental health indicators and service needs of children living with foster families. Children and Youth Services Review, 147, 106833.

Stewart, S. L., Vasudeva, A. S., Mistry, D., & Poss, J. W. (2023). The impact of child maltreatment on mental health outcome improvements among children and youth accessing community mental health care. Child Abuse & Neglect, 139, 106066.

Shannon L. Stewart, Abigail Withers, Valbona Semovski & Natalia Lapshina (20 Nov 2023): Polyvictimization and Impairments in Functioning for Children and Youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, DOI: 10.1080/19315864.2023.2285040

Stewart, S. L., Celebre, A., Semovski, V., Hirdes, J. P., Vadeboncoeur, C., & Poss, J. W. (2022). The interRAI Child and Youth Suite of Mental Health Assessment Instruments: An integrated approach to mental health service delivery. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 710569.

Stewart, S. L., Lapshina, N., & Semovski, V. (2021). Interpersonal polyvictimization: Addressing the care planning needs of traumatized children and youth. Child Abuse & Neglect, 114, 104956.

Reid, G. J., Stewart, S. L., Barwick, M., Cunningham, C., Carter, J., Evans, B., Zaric, G. (2019). Exploring patterns of service utilization within children's mental health agencies. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Stewart, S. L., Thornley, E., Poss, J., & Hirdes, J. (2019).  Resource intensity for children and youth (RIChY):  The development of an algorithm to identify high service users in children’s mental health. Health Services Insights, 12, https://doi.org/10.1177/1178632919827930

Billawala, A. S., Hamza, C. A., & Stewart, S. L. (2018). Risk factors for complex special needs among male children seeking mental health services. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 23(2), 17-26.

Lapshina, N., & Stewart, S. L. (2018). Examining service complexity in children with intellectual disability and mental health problems who receive inpatient or outpatient services. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 1-10.

Lau, C., Stewart, S. L., Sarmiento, C., Saklofske, D. H., & Tremblay, P. F. (2018). Who is at risk for problematic video gaming?  Risk factors in problematic video gaming in Canadian clinically referred children and adolescents.  Mulitmodal Technologies and Interaction, 2(2), 19.

Lau, C., Stewart, S. L., Saklofse, D. H., Tremblay, P. F., & Hirdes, J. (2018). Psychometric evaluation of the interRAI Child and Youth Mental Health Disruptive/Aggression Behaviour Scale (DABS) and Hyperactive/Distraction Scale (HDS). Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 49, 279–289.

Stewart, S. L., Hassani, F. K., Poss, J., & Hirdes, J. P. (2017). The determinants of service complexity in children with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 61(11), 1055-1068.

Arbeau, K., Theall, L., Willoughby, K., Berman, J., & Stewart, S. L. (2017). What happened? Exploring the relationship between trauma and provisional mental health diagnoses for children and youth. Psychology, 8(14), 2485-2495.

Klassen, J., Hamza C. A., & Stewart, S. L. (2017). An examination of correlates for adolescent engagement in nonsuicidal self-injury, suicidal self-injury, and substance use. Journal for Research on Adolescence, 1-12.

Baiden, P., Stewart, S. L., & Fallon, B. (2017a).  The mediating effect of depressive symptoms on the relationship between bullying victimization and non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: Findings from community and inpatient mental health settings in Ontario, Canada. Psychiatry Research, 255, 238-247.

Baiden, P., Stewart, S. L. & Fallon, B. (2017b). The role of adverse childhood experiences as determinants of non-suicidal self-injury among children and adolescents referred to community and inpatient mental health settings. Child Abuse & Neglect, 69, 163-176.

Stewart, S. L., & Hamza. C. A. (2017). The Child and Youth Mental Health Assessment (ChYMH): An examination of the psychometric properties of an integrated assessment developed for clinically referred children and youth. BMC health services research, 17(1), 82, 1-10.

Stewart, S. L., Klassen, J., & Hamza, C. (2016). Emerging mental health diagnoses and school disruption: An examination among clinically referred children and youth. Exceptionality Education International, 26, 5-20.

Armiento, J., Hamza, C., Stewart, S. L., & Leschied, A. (2016). Direct and indirect forms of childhood maltreatment and nonsuicidal-self-injury among clinically-referred children and youth.  Journal of Affective Disorders, 200, 212-217.