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Improving Care for Children with ADHD

National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality
October 2003

The National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality has developed and adapted a suite of tools to help organizations accelerate their work to improve. In addition, many organizations have developed tools in the course of their improvement efforts — for example, successful protocols, order sets and forms, instructions and guidelines for implementing key changes — and are making them available on NICHQ.org for others to use or adapt in their own organizations.

Clinical Practice Guideline: Treatment of the School-Aged Child With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

American Academy of Pediatrics
October 2001

This clinical practice guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for the treatment of children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This guideline, the second in a set of policies on this condition, is intended for use by clinicians working in primary care settings. The initiation of treatment requires the accurate establishment of a diagnosis of ADHD; the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical practice guideline on diagnosis of children with ADHD provides direction in appropriately diagnosing this disorder.

Treatment Guidelines for Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder: Child Psychiatric Workgroup on Bipolar Disorder

Robert A. Kowatch, M.D., Mary Fristad, PH.D., Boris Birmaher, M.D., Karen Dineen Wagner, M.D., Robert L. Findling, M.D., Martha Hellander, J.D., and the workgroup members
March 2005

Clinicians who treat children and adolescents with bipolar disorder desperately need current treatment guidelines. These guidelines were developed by expert consensus and a review of the extant literature about the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric bipolar disorders. The four sections of these guidelines include diagnosis, comorbidity, acute treatment, and maintenance treatment. These guidelines are not intended to serve as an absolute standard of medical or psychological care but rather to serve as clinically useful guidelines for evaluation and treatment that can be used in the care of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. These guidelines are subject to change as our evidence base increases and practice patterns evolve.

Recovery Management

Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network

William L. White, MA, Ernest Kurtz, PhD, Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC

The Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Great Lakes ATTC) is part of a

national network that includes 14 regional centers and a national office, funded by the

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance

Abuse Treatment. Great Lakes’ primary goal is to help elevate the quality of addiction

treatment by designing and delivering culturally competent, research-based training,

education, and systems-change programs for addiction treatment and other allied health

professionals. Great Lakes ATTC is very pleased to be able to offer its professional constituents a new monograph on the topic of Recovery Management.

Many of the central ideas contained in this monograph were birthed over the past eight

years inside the Behavioral Health Recovery Management project — a joint venture

by Fayette Companies in Peoria, Illinois and Chestnut Health Systems in Bloomington,

Ilinois. Many of the core strategies outlined in this monograph have been and are being

tested within the Lighthouse Institute (Chestnut Health Systems’ research division) and

within other addiction research centers around the country.

This monograph contains a synthesis of findings from scientific studies and recommendations

from new grassroots recovery advocacy and support organizations that are collectively

pushing a fundamental redesign of addiction treatment in the United States. Based

on growing evidence of the chronicity and complexity of severe substance use disorders,

we are faced with an increasing need to shift the current acute care model of treatment

toward a model of assertive and sustained recovery management.

This monograph introduces the recovery management model through a collection of four

papers.

The first paper, entitled “Recovery: The New Frontier,” describes the historical shift

in the addictions field from a pathology paradigm (knowledge derived from studies of

the problem), through an intervention paradigm (knowledge derived from the clinical

treatment of the problem), to an emerging recovery paradigm (knowledge derived

from individuals, families, and communities that have solved the problem). It concludes

with a discussion of ways in which this latter paradigm will reshape the future

of treatment and recovery in the United States.

The second paper, “The Varieties of Recovery Experience,” describes what we as a

country know from the standpoint of science and cultural experience about the longterm

resolution of alcohol and other drug problems, as well as the implications of this

knowledge for the design of addiction treatment.

The third paper, “Recovery Management: What if we really believed addiction was

a chronic disorder?” defines the core principles, changes in clinical practices, implementation

obstacles, and potential pitfalls of the recovery management model.

The final paper, “Recovery Management and People of Color: Redesigning Addiction

Treatment for Historically Disempowered Communities,” describes the special

advantages the recovery management model offers to communities of color in the

United States.

For more information

Dawn Zekis
DHS Director of Policy and Planning - DHS Lead Staff
Dawn.Zekis@arkansas.gov, 501-683-0173