The overall goal of the Principal Research Core (PRC) of the Advanced Center to Improve PediatricMental Health Care (ACIPMHC) is to conduct effectiveness and implementation research that informsimprovement of pediatric mental health care in the public service sectors of child welfare and mentalhealth, by achieving greater integration of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and usual care. The researchprogram is built upon a 17 year history of clinical epidemiology studies, and a more recent set ofeffectiveness and implementation studies conducted in a collaboration between services researchers inSan Diego and intervention researchers at the Center for Research to Practice (CR2P: linked to theOregon Social Learning Center) in Oregon, as well as with other intervention researchers across thecountry who are involved with parent-mediated interventions for youth with externalizing behaviorproblems/disruptive behavior disorders. Interventions central to existing and proposed studies include:The Incredible Years (Webster-Stratton), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (Eyberg), MultidimensionalTreatment Foster Care/Parent Management Training (Chamberlain, Fisher, Reid), and MultisystemicTherapy (Henggeler, Schoenwald). The overall PRC goal will be addressed through two specific aims: 1)To use an interdisciplinary research network linking intervention and services researchers to developeffectiveness and implementation research on strategies to integrate EBP and usual care to improvechildren's MH care. The core uses a multiple-stakeholder framework emphasizing community andorganizational contexts, interchange of multiple perspectives, diverse methods of multi-level researchspanning qualitative and quantitative traditions, and emerging theoretical frameworks. 2) To conductdevelopmental and pilot studies that inform full-scale effectiveness and implementation studies in the CWand MH sectors. The PRC will link investigators from different methodological and conceptual approachesand will link closely to proposed workgroups in the RMC as well as the CMC Board to conduct studies incollaboration with community stakeholders in natural 'laboratories' at the local, state and national levels.Two developmental studies and two small pilot studies are proposed to demonstrate the type and scope ofwork intended in this core.
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