Investing in Children's Mental Health

Investing in Children's Mental Health offers an in-depth investigation of the currently available mental health interventions and argues for what more practitioners, child-serving organizations, policymakers, and other stakeholders can do to help future populations.

Daniel Eisenberg is a health economist and professor at University of California, Los Angeles. His goal is to improve understanding of how to invest effectively in the mental health of young people. He is the founder and a Principal Investigator for the Healthy Minds Study, a leading national study of mental health in college populations in the U.S.
Ramesh Raghavan is a child mental health services researcher at New York University. He has led several studies on access to, and quality of, mental health services for vulnerable child populations, primarily those in the child welfare system. Dr. Raghavan earned his PhD in Health Services from the University of California, Los Angeles, his MD in Psychiatry from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, India, and his bachelor's degree from Stanley Medical College, Tamil Nadu Medical University, India.

Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Invest in Children's Mental Health?
Chapter 2: Overview of Current Evidence and Practice
Chapter 3: Home Visiting Programs
Chapter 4: Parent Training Programs
Chapter 5: School-based Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Programs
Chapter 6: Multisystemic Therapy: The Fluorescent Light Bulb Not Everyone is Using
Chapter 7: Communities that Care
Chapter 8: Lessons Learned and Remaining Questions
Chapter 9: A Path towards Better Investments
Notes Index