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The Challenges Of Child Mental Health Services ResearchBARBARA J. BURNS, PhD, holds academic appointments at Duke University as a professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as an associate research professor in the Center for Health Policy Research and Education, and as senior fellow, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. She serves as co-director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology and Health Services Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and as co-director of the Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Mental Health Services and Systems administered through Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article presents challenges facing child mental health services research in its context as a recently developed field of research and the contributions made by six articles in this issue. These articles illustrate the two major categories of services research: systems level research and clinical services level research. The authors of these articles have documented initial results of innovative interventions at both levels and have raised several methodological issues, particularly for randomized clinical trials in naturalistic settings. Recommendations for considering issues of design and measurement in future research are discussed.
Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 2, No. 4,
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