Children's mental health in a continuum of care: Clinical outcomes at 18 months for the fort bragg demonstration

Program Strength and Fidelity in Evaluation

“…However, Foster and his colleagues found that costs were vastly different with the Demonstration being more expensive. Hamner, Lambert, and Bickman (1997) confirmed that the differences remained after 18 months from intake. Hamner, Lambert, and Bickman (1997) confirmed that the differences remained after 18 months from intake.…”

Evaluating systems of care: Missing links in children's mental health research

“…The first of these studies compared system changes at Fort Bragg in North Carolina~Bickman et al, 1995;Bickman, 1996aBickman, , 1996bHamner, Lambert, & Bickman, 1997! with the standard CHAMPUS~Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services!…”

Therapist Training in Empirically Supported Treatments: A Review of Evaluation Methods for Short- and Long-Term Outcomes

“…For example, the MST Transportability study (Schoenwald et al 2003) evaluated youth functioning with the caregiver report forms of the CBCL and the Parent and Youth Vanderbilt Functioning Index (VFI-P; Bickman et al 1998). Similarly, family functioning may also be a relevant clinical outcome in evaluating services for children and adolescents; the Caregiver Strain Index (Brannan et al 1997) and Family Assessment Device (Epstein et al 1983) were used to assess family-level functioning in the Fort Bragg Child and Adolescent Mental Health Demonstration Project, a quasi-experiment comparing the effects of a full continuum of mental health services at one site to two comparable traditional sites (Hamner et al 1997;Bickman et al 2000).…”