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Journal Issue: Children and Managed Health Care Volume 8 Number 2 Spring 1998

The Impact of Managed Care on Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families
Authors: Beth A. Stroul Sheila A. Pires Mary I. Armstrong Judith C. Meyers

Endnotes

  1. Center for Mental Health Services. Mental health, United States, 1996. R. Manderscheid and M.A. Sonnenschein, eds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996.
  2. Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children. Crisis in child mental health. New York: Harper and Row, 1969.
  3. President's Commission on Mental Health. Task panel reports submitted to the President's Commission on Mental Health. Vol. III. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978, pp. 612-60.
  4. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. Children's mental health: Problems and services: A background paper. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.
  5. Meyers, J. Federal efforts to improve mental health services for children: Breaking a cycle of failure. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology (1985)14:182-87.
  6. Children with serious emotional disorders are defined as those from birth to 18 years of age who currently, or at any time during the past year, had diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders of sufficient duration to meet criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM IIIR), resulting in functional impairment that substantially interfered with or limited their role functioning in family, school, or community settings. See Friedman, R., Kutash, K., and Duchnowski, A.J. The population of concern: Defining the issues. In Children's mental health: Creating systems of care in a changing society. B. Stroul, ed. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, 1996.
  7. Knitzer, J. Unclaimed children: The failure of public responsibility to children and adolescents in need of mental health services. Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund, 1982.
  8. Stroul, B., and Friedman, R. A system of care for children and youth with severe emotional distur-bances. Rev. ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Child Development Center, National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, 1986.
  9. Stroul, B., and Friedman, R. The system of care concept and philosophy. In Children's mental health: Creating systems of care in a changing society. B. Stroul, ed. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, 1996.
  10. Davis, M., Yelton, S., and Katz-Leavy, J. Unclaimed children revisited: The status of state children's mental health services. Paper presented to the Sixth Annual Research Conference: A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base. Tampa, FL, 1993.
  11. Cole, R., and Poe, S. Partnerships for care-Systems of care for children with serious emotional distur-bances and their families. Washington, DC: Washington Business Group on Health, 1993.
  12. Stroul, B. Introduction: Progress in children's mental health. In Children's mental health: Creating systems of care in a changing society. B. Stroul, ed. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, 1996.
  13. Lourie, I., Katz-Leavy, J., DeCarolis, G., and Quinlan, W. The role of the federal government. In Children's mental health: Creating systems of care in a changing society. B. Stroul, ed. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, 1996.
  14. Behar, L. Financing systems of care. In Children's mental health: Creating systems of care in a changing society. B. Stroul, ed. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Company, 1996.
  15. Meyers, J. Financing strategies to support innovations in service delivery to children. Journal of Child Clinical Psychology (1994) 23:48-54.
  16. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, Title IV, Subtitle B, Section 6403: Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Amendments of 1989, Public Law 101-239, 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq., Stat. 103, 2258-70.
  17. Lourie, I., Howe, S., and Roebuck, L. Systematic approaches to mental health care in the private sector for children, adolescents and their families. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Child Development Center, National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, 1996.
  18. Lourie, I., Howe, S., and Roebuck, L. Private sector managed care and children's mental health. Focal Point (Fall 1996) 10:1. Available online at http://www.rtc.pdx.edu/fp/fall96/private.htm.
  19. Stroul, B. Managed care and children's mental health: Proceedings of the May 1995 state managed care meeting. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Child Development Center, National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, 1996.
  20. The HCRTP is funded by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, with additional support from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and is being conducted jointly by the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health at the University of South Florida in Tampa, the Human Service Collaborative of Washington, DC, and the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University.
  21. Pires, S., Stroul, B., Roebuck, L., et al. Health care reform tracking project: Tracking state health care reforms as they affect children and adolescents with emotional disorders and their families. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida, Florida Mental Health Institute, 1995.
  22. Stroul, B., Pires, S., Roebuck, L., et al. State health care reforms: How they affect children and adolescents with emotional disorders and their families. Journal of Mental Health Services Administration (Winter 1997) 24,4:585-98.
  23. The 10 states selected for site visits included Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, and Washington.
  24. Stroul, B., Pires, S., and Armstrong, M. Health care reform tracking project: Tracking state managed care reforms as they affect children and adolescents with behavioral health disorders and their families- 1997 impact analysis. Tampa: University of South Florida, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, 1998.
  25. Capitation funding is a method of at-risk contracting that provides preset, prospective funding based on the total number of persons covered by the benefit plan. Caserate funding is a method of at-risk contracting that provides preset, prospective funding assigned on the basis of the number and type of enrolled persons who present for services, as opposed to the number of persons covered by the plan.