Supporting the Youth Peer Workforce: Peer support is fast emerging as a promising and widely endorsed addition to the array of mental health services available to young people experiencing serious mental health conditions. This practice brief offers strategies for supporting youth peer support specialists and addressing common challenges they face.
Effective Programs to Address Trauma in Schools: In the United States, children and adolescents are exposed to violence and other traumatic events at alarming rates. Numerous studies have documented the short-and long-term consequences of exposure to violence and other traumatic events on children and adolescents. This practice brief describes three of the most commonly used effective school-based interventions for trauma and the importance of creating a “trauma-informed” school community in order to optimize these interventions.
The Importance of Human Relationships, Ethics, and Recovery-Orientated Values in the Delivery of CBT for People with Psychosis: This brief summarizes research examining whether Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is able to meet the stated needs of individuals seeking mental health services. CBTp is an accepted evidence-based treatment aimed at reducing the distress and impairment associated with psychotic symptoms. CBTp has been incorporated in national Canadian and United States schizophrenia treatment guidelines.
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Care for Early Psychosis: Efforts to improve the quality and population reach of services for psychosis underscore the need to provide culturally and linguistically responsive care (CLR). With an emphasis on early psychosis, this brief reviews clinical and organizational best practices to promote such care. Highlights of research findings that empirically support the need for CLR care are presented and largely focus on Latinx sub-populations. Implications for practice and research applicable to multiple service settings with varying service sectors are illustrated.
