Tools for Mental Health Care Providers

Database Profiles

To add or update a profile in our database of mental health care providers, please visit Add or Update your Profile in the MSPP INTERFACE Database.

MSPP INTERFACE Flyers

Download a one-page flyer about the MSPP INTERFACE Referral Service —English or Spanish

Download a flyer about What to Expect When You Call the Helpline

MSPP INTERFACE Newsletter Archive

Past issues of the MSPP INTERFACE Referral Service newsletter, with articles on recent research and practical tips.

MSPP Continuing Ed Programs

The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology offers a wide range of continuing education programs and special events throughout the year. Courses, seminars, and workshops are designed to provide psychologists, social workers, nurses, educators, and other mental health and business professionals with the knowledge they need to take their careers to the next level. Click here for the MSPP CE Catalog and Online Registration System.

Recent articles of note

The Newest Edition of Psychiatry’s “Bible,” the DSM-5, Is Complete (Scientific American, January 28, 2013). “For more than 11 years, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has been laboring to revise the current version of its best-selling guidebook....”

CANS Certification

Massachusetts Child & Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Training and Certification Login

The Massachusetts Mental Health System

Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP)

www.mcpap.com

MCPAP lists a number of tools for primary care providers:

• Developmental Screening Toolkit for PCPs
• A Toolkit For The Well Child Screening of Military Children
• Screening, Diagnosing, Treating,and Monitoring Child and Adolescent Depression in the Primary Care Setting
• The Primary Care Behavioral Health Toolkit includes guidelines on implementing behavioral health screenings in primary care settings, guidance on clinical issues related to screening, and information on four screening tools: M-CHAT, PSC, PEDS, and PHQ-9.
• Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC)
• Warning Signs for Parents, a toolkit that includes warning signs of ADHD, bipolar, conduct disorder, depression, eating disorders, suicide, and substance abuse.
• New AAP Clinical Guidelines for Autism Spectrum Disorders
• The Concord SPED PAC Sped Parent Basic Toolkit offers families help navigating the Massachusetts special education system.
• The CRAFFT (Car, Relax, Alone, Forget Friends, Trouble) screens for substance abuse in adolescents.

Regional School Health Coalition Crisis Intervention & Response Guide and Training Tool

Initiated in 2010, the RSHC embarked on the development of a comprehensive guide and training tool aimed at highlighting the procedural and emotional aspects of emergency response/trauma response for youth. The work is being done in collaboration within the Suicide Prevention Coalition & the Central MA Child Trauma Center Project. The Crisis Intervention and Response Resource Guide & Training Tool inventories and identifies programs, resources and protocols available to all within the region (though underutilized or unknown to some districts/agencies) as well as local/state/national resources.

Child Trends

Child Trends, an independent research center, has published Assessing the Mental Health of Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners

Old Doc Keller's Blog

olddockeller.blogspot.com. A pediatrician reflects on the mental health of children and the systems that are trying to help them.

Massachusetts Comprehensive School Health Manual

www.msppinterface.org/docs/schoolhealth/start.pdf

Libraries/Resource Centers

See our list of local libraries offering extensive mental health and wellness resources.