IICAPS: A Home-Based Psychiatric Treatment for Children and Adolescents

by Joseph Woolston, Jean Adnopoz, Steven Berkowitz

Overview

This book describes in detail a model of home-based care for children with serious psychiatric illnesses. The IICAPS model (Intensive, In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services) was developed by doctors at the Yale Child Center Study in 1996 and has proved effective in reducing the need for inpatient and other institution-based services.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300112498
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	12/04/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Joseph L. Woolston, M.D., is Albert J. Solnit Professor of Child Psychiatry & Pediatrics and senior medical director of IICAPS, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. Jean A. Adnopoz, M.P.H., is clinical professor and program director of IICAPS, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. Steven J. Berkowitz, M.D., is assistant professor, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine.

Editorial Reviews

"A particularly valuable book that focuses on a therapeutic structure designed to treat children and youth within a variety of diagnostic categories."—Martha Dore, Connecticut Center for Effective Practice, Child Health and Development Institute

Martha Dore

"A revolutionary approach to providing family based in-home care for seriously mentally disturbed children."—Christoph Heinicke, Professor, UCLA Division of Child Psychiatry and Director UCLA Family Development Project

Christoph Heinicke