Child and Adolescent Interdisciplinary Research Network
(Subcontract PI: Chamberlain)
National Institute of Mental Health

Staff at CR2P are members of this network, which strives to develop strategies for the dissemination, implementation, and maintenance of evidence-based, parent-mediated interventions (E-BPMI) in CWS settings for the treatment of disruptive disorders and externalizing behavior problems in children and adolescents. This goal is addressed through three specific aims:

1. To develop an interdisciplinary research network that links intervention and services researchers with experts in cultural anthropology, organizational culture and change, and child welfare and mental health economics and with stakeholders from CWS and mental health agencies.
2. To develop, using a cultural exchange framework, a dissemination and implementation heuristic model with derived practical strategies for adapting existing E-BPMI for CWS populations that can be used by CWS stakeholders and by intervention and services researchers.
3. To examine the use of E-BPMI for biological parents involved in the CWS, including potential model extensions to address the interface between parent-mediated treatments designed to improve the skills and coping mechanisms of biological parents with existing community-based treatments that are mandated as part of reunification plans.