Children's Mental Health and the Life Course Model: Transforming Children’s Health Care to Improve Lifelong Behavioral Health for All

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With rapidly rising rates of mental health disorders, changing patterns of occurrence, and increasing levels of morbidity, the need for a better understanding of the developmental origins and influence of mental health on children's behavioral health outcomes has become critical. This need for better understanding extends to both the growing prevalence of mental health disorders as well as the role and impact of neurodevelopmental pathways in their onset and expression. Addressing these changes in disease patterns and effects on children and families will require a multifaceted approach that goes beyond simply making changes to clinical care or adding personnel to the health services system. New policies, financing, and implementation can put established best practices and numerous research findings from around the country into action.

The Maternal and Child Health Life Course Intervention Research Network and the Forum for Children's Well-Being at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine jointly organized a webinar series to explore how mental health disorders develop over the life course, with a special emphasis on prenatal, early, middle, and later childhood development. This series centered on identifying gaps in our knowledge, exploring possible new strategies for using existing data to enhance understanding of the developmental origins of mental disorders, reviewing potential approaches to prevention and optimization, and proposing new ways of framing how to understand, address, and prevent these disorders from a life course development perspective. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the series.

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92 pages · 6 x 9 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-68337-8
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-68338-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25941

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Children's Mental Health and the Life Course Model: A Virtual Workshop Series: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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William R. Beardslee

William R. Beardslee, M.D., is the Gardner-Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital. He also directs the Preventive Intervention Project at Judge Baker Children's Center and also the Prevention of Depression Study. Dr. Beardslee's long-standing research interest has centered on the development of children who are at risk due to severe parental mental illness and focuses on the ways in which self-understanding helps individuals cope with adversity. He studied resilience in survivors of cancer and in children of depressed parents that led to the development of effective public health interventions for families facing depression, and a ten year randomized trial examination of the two strategies which showed that they were safe and led to lasting gains. This approach has since received high ratings and is being disseminated in the United States as well as in numerous countries around the world. Dr. Beardslee is currently directing a long-range study at Judge Baker that explores the effects of clinician-facilitated, family-based preventive intervention. This research is designed to gauge the impact of direct intervention and measure its ability to enhance resilience and family understanding for children of parents with affective disorder. Dr. Beardslee was a member of numerous IOM committees, including the Committee on Depression, Parenting Practices, and the Health Development of Young Children, Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults: Research Advances and Promising Interventions, Committee on Adolescent Health and Development, and Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders. He was also a member of the IOM/NRC Board on Children, Youth and Families.

Thomas F. Boat

Thomas F. Boat, M.D., is Vice President for Health Affairs and Christian R. Holmes Professor and Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He is also a professor in the Department of Pediatrics. A pediatric pulmonologist by training, Dr. Boat worked early in his career to define the pathophysiology of airway dysfunction and more effective therapies for chronic lung diseases of childhood, such as cystic fibrosis. More recently he has worked at local and national levels to improve research efforts, subspecialty training and clinical care delivery. He has a special interest in issues posed by children’s behavioral health to pediatric care. Dr. Boat is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and recently served as chair of the IOM Committee on Accelerating Rare Diseases Research and Orphan Products Development, as well as vice chair of the BCYF Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults. He currently chairs the IOM Committee on Pediatric Studies conducted under BPCA and PREA. He received an M.D. from the University of Iowa.

Laurel K. Leslie

Laurel K. Leslie, M.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine, and holds a secondary appointment in Pediatrics. She is an active faculty member in the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences. She is also the Associate Director of Community Engagement at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Dr. Leslie received her BA from Harvard University and her MD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her residency training in Primary Care Pediatrics and fellowship training in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, where she also served as Chief Medical Resident. Subsequently, she served as a Research Scientist at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) at Rady Children's Hospital and Health Center in San Diego. While at CASRC, Dr. Leslie received a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at San Diego State University. Dr. Leslie joined the ICRHPS at Tufts Medical Center in the Fall of 2006. Dr. Leslie's research interests focus on the identification and treatment of developmental and mental health needs of children and adolescents across the health, mental health, and school sectors. Specific areas of inquiry include the impact of guidelines and policy initiatives on youth service use and outcomes and collaborative models of care across sectors that incorporate the child and family as active participants in care. Her research portfolio includes a K08 award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) investigating the identification and treatment of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in primary care settings; funding from the Charles H. Hood Foundation researching rates of psychotropic medication use in youth in CW/CPS across 92 communities in the U.S. and factors predicting geographic disparities; and funding from the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Research Fund regarding the identification and treatment of developmental and mental health problems in young children ages 0-2 years receiving child welfare/child protective services. She also holds a Distinguished Fellowship from the William T. Grant Foundation focused on the integration of research, policy, and practice in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. Dr. Leslie's expertise in behavioral and developmental pediatrics is recognized nationally; work with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and National Initiative on Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) includes development of an ADHD toolkit; the eQIPP interactive, web-based CME module on ADHD; and efforts on the Task Force on Foster Care. She is also principal author of a nationally recognized website on child development, www.howkidsdevelop.com, as well as a second site, www.help4kidswithadhd.com. Dr. Leslie also maintains an active interest in defining the future of pediatric practice and education, participating in the Task Force on the Future of Pediatric Education II (FOPE II), the Pediatric Leadership Alliance, and the American Board of Pediatrics' current Residency Review and Redesign Project (R3P).

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Children's Mental Health and the Life Course Model: Transforming Children’s Health Care to Improve Lifelong Behavioral Health for All

April 16, 2020

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This webinar series – co-organized by the MCH Life Course Intervention Research Network and the National Academies' Forum for Children’s Well-Being – will focus on understanding how mental health disorders develop over the life span, with a special emphasis on prenatal, early, middle, and later childhood development. This series will focus on identifying gaps in our knowledge, exploring new strategies for using existing data to enhance our understanding of the developmental origins of mental disorders, reviewing potential approaches to prevention and optimization, and proposing new ways of framing how we understand, address, and prevent these disorders from a life course development perspective.

For the fifth webinar in this series, Laurel Leslie, MD, MPH (American Board of Pediatrics) and Tom Boat, MD (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) will host a discussion on a primary care approach to prevention of mental health disorders.

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