IICAPS A Home-based Psychiatric Treatment for Children and Adolescents Joseph L. Woolston, Jean Adnopoz, Steven Berkowitz

This book describes in detail a model of home-based care for children with serious psychiatric illnesses. The IICAPS model (Intensive, In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services) was developed by doctors at the Yale Child Center Study in 1996 and has proved effective in reducing the need for inpatient and other institution-based services.

Joseph Woolston, M.D., is Albert J. Solnit Professor of Child Psychiatry & Pediatrics and senior medical director of IICAPS, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. Jean Adnopoz, M.P.H., is clinical professor and program director of IICAPS, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. Steven Berkowitz, M.D., is assistant professor, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine.

"A particularly valuable book that focuses on a therapeutic structure designed to treat children and youth within a variety of diagnostic categories."--Martha Dore, Connecticut Center for Effective Practice, Child Health and Development Institute --Martha Dore