TOPIC: Day Treatment

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Introductory Packet

• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

• Alternative High School Programs
• Brookline Resilient Youth Team (BRYT)
• Children in Out-of-Home Care: Entry Into Intensive or Restrictive Mental Health and Residential Care Placements
• Community Day Schools
• Considering LRE in Placement Decisions
• “Don’t Kick Me Out!”: Day Treatment for Two Preschool Children With Severe Behavior Problems
• Education and Day Treatment Opportunities in Schools: Strategies That Work
• Inpatient and Residential treatment Effects for Children and Adolescents: A Review and Critique.
• Placement, Short-and-Sweet
• The Renfrew Center: Day Treatment Program
• Research on Day Treatment Programs for Preschoolers With Disruptive Behavior Disorders
• A Rural, Community-Based Program of Day Treatment Wraparound Services for At-Risk Youth
• School-Based Day Treatment Program Guidelines
• A School-Based Transition Program for High-Risk Adolescents
• Texana Center: Behavioral Healthcare and Developmental Disabilities Services

• Child Welfare Information Gateway: Systems of Care
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
• National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities

• Children in Out-of-Home Care: Entry Into Intensive or Restrictive Mental Health and Residential Care Placements. By James, S., Leslie, L., Hurlburt, M., et al. (2006). Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol.14, No.4, 196-208.
• Effectiveness of Day Treatment with Proctor Care for Young Children: A Four Year Follow Up. By Whitemore, E. et al. (2003). Journal of Community Psychology, 31(5), 459-468.
• Inpatient and Residential Treatment Effects for Children and Adolescents: a review and critique. By Epstein, RA Jr. (2004). Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. Apr 13(2): 11-28.
• Intensive Home and Community Interventions. By Farmer, E.M.Z., Dorsey, S., & Mustillo, S.A. (2004). Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 13(4), 857-884.
• Placement Movement in Out-of-Home Care: Patterns and Predictors. By James, S., Landsverk, J., & Slymen, D.J. (2004). Children and Youth Services Review, 26(2), 185-206.
• A Study of a Therapeutic Preschool Day Treatment Program. By Gray, J., Nielsen, D.R., Wood, L.E., Andresen, M. & Dolce, K. (2000). Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(1), 25-32.
• The System of Care for Children and the Least Restrictive Alternative: Legal Origins and Current Concerns. By Fields, S.A., & Olges, B.M. (2002). Children's Services: Social Policy, Research & Practice, 5(2), 75-93.
• Unconditional Care: Relationship-Based, Behavioral Intervention with Vulnerable Children and Families. By Sprinson, J.S. & Berrick, K.(2010). University Press.

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