HealthySteps is an evidence - based, interdisciplinary
pediatric primary care program that ensures babies and toddlers receive nurturing parenting and have healthy development.
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The
program's focus is the broad range of behavioral, psychosocial, and developmental issues that present in
primary care pediatric practice.
Settings for maternal mental health screening may include but are not limited to: health
care providers (
primary care, OB, midwifery, and
pediatric), public health, addictions and mental health, community social services, and early childhood
programs.
Repayment for up to $ 100,000 over a period of four years for
primary care,
pediatric care, internal medicine, and family medicine is also made available through the Rural Physician Incentive
Program.
Health
care professionals working in
pediatric primary care practices (eg, physicians, nurses, and social workers) and in other health and education
programs (eg, home visiting nurses, community case managers, and community health workers) must work on the same team to capitalize on each others» capabilities and expertise, increase efficiencies, and improve the health of children and families.
The Services for Kids in
Primary -
care (SKIP) treatment research
program (www.skipprogram.org) integrates personalized behavioral health services in practice settings serving
pediatric patients.
An innovative training
program designed specifically for Behavioral Health Providers working in
pediatric primary care...
Specific home visitation
programs, especially with nurses supporting parents prenatally and then after the baby is born, have been carefully evaluated.17 - 19 Parenting
programs also offer valuable guidance and can be effective, such as the Triple P intervention.20 Another example is the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model of
pediatric primary care.21 Building on the relationship between pediatrician and family, SEEK identifies and helps address prevalent risk factors such as parental depression.
Access to parenting
programs in
primary care settings should be removed from an «at - risk» funding framework in the United States and be made universally available in
pediatric settings, an article in the American Medical Association journal, JAMA Pediatrics, recommends.
Given the likely lower cost of targeted
pediatric primary care interventions compared with home - based
programs, 34 cost - effectiveness analyses will be needed to better understand implications for public health policy.
The Healthy Steps for Young Children
Program was designed to meet the needs of families regarding their young children's early development and behavior by enhancing relationships between parents and their children, between families and the
pediatric practice, and among practice members.11 - 13 Healthy Steps aims to enhance the capacity and effectiveness of
pediatric primary care by incorporating developmental specialists into
pediatric practice.
Hubs serve as a single point of entry for families to link to services including health insurance,
primary care /
pediatric medical homes, WIC, Part C Early Intervention, child behavioral health and mental health, and early education
programs.
Two
primary care pediatric practices had an evidence - based parenting
program co-located in the practice for parents of children aged 2 — 12 years and two practices had the
program available using an enhanced - referral procedure for locations external to the practices.
If you work with pregnant women, infants, young children, or their families — whether they join you in a
pediatric or
primary care office, classroom, courtroom, or child
care center — we encourage you to take advantage of these
programs.
More recently, we (Lavigne et al., 2007) conducted a study comparing a minimal intervention involving bibliotherapy and no therapist contact with a moderately intensive, 12 - session parent training
program (Webster - Stratton, 1997) using two models for linking
primary care to mental health services: an «office» model in which services were provided by
primary care nurses, and a «referral» model, in which
pediatric psychologists provided treatment.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) The study examined the effectiveness of collaborative -
care, cognitive - behavioral therapy (CBT)
program adjunctive to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) treatment in health maintenance organization (HMO)
pediatric primary care.
Objective To determine if a nurse - led or psychologist - led parent - training
program was more successful than a minimal intervention in treating early childhood Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) in
pediatric primary care.