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The Intensive Mental Health Program meets the needs for services in school systems for children with serious emotional disturbances and for training graduate students in clinical applications with a difficult-to-serve population. We address the range of challenges and rewards experienced in the development of the comprehensive intervention program, the continued maintenance of program elements, and the program evaluation.
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Roberts, M.C., Vernberg, E.M., Biggs, B.K. et al. Lessons Learned from the Intensive Mental Health Program: A School-based, Community Oriented Program for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances. J Child Fam Stud 17, 277–289 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-007-9151-4
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