Lessons from the Field Series

The Children, Youth & Family Consortium's Children's Mental Health Program (CMH Program) hosts a theme-based seminar series called Lessons from the Field. The purpose of this series is 1) to engage community and University clinicians, community leaders, researchers, and instructors in examining specific topics related to children’s mental health, and (2) to close the research-practice gap by developing a strong circular pattern of communication where theory and research inform practice that in turn informs theory and research.

The series fits the CMH Program goal to strengthen children’s mental health practice and policy by promoting use of evidence. Events are planned by a diverse group of community and University representatives and attended by clinicians, researchers, parents and others locally and throughout Minnesota via video stream and interactive television.

Past Lessons from the Field

Find materials from past “Lessons from the Field” events, including event summaries, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents below.

• Trauma and Children: A model program for trauma-focused care and why it works (October 20, 2011)
  
  
• More than just mean girls; A series on Relational Aggression (2010-2011)

• Race, Culture, and Children's Mental Health (2009-2010)

• Autism Spectrum Disorders (2008-2009)

• Issues that Impact Attachment (2007-2008)

• Attachment Series (2006-2007)
  
  
• Intensive Early Treatment with Our Highest Risk Children (2005-2006)
  
  
• The FDA "Black Box" Warning on Antidepressant Medications (2004-2005)
  
  
• Strategies for Working with Depressed Mothers and Their Infants (2003-2004)
  
  
• Special presentation by Dante Cicchetti on Child Maltreatment March (2006)