Name
Assessing Family-Centered Care to Advance Pediatric Mental Healthcare Integration
Description

Family-centered care (FCC) is an essential component of pediatric collaborative care that supports treatment engagement and improved outcomes; however, barriers to using patient and caregiver feedback to improve practice are well-documented. This presentation draws on the experience of a pediatric collaborative care program, which is part of an academic-community partnership that has served nearly 400 children and adolescents, to describe how our interprofessional team measured FCC and applied caregiver insights to improve the quality of integrated services. We will share lessons learned in collecting survey-based input from caregivers on the quality of integrated care.

Speakers
Nathaniel Dell, PhD, LCSW
Alla Dorfman, MD
Celina Jacobi, MD
Eli Smith, MD, MPH
Kindra York, RN
Shae Strom, MSW, LCSW
Co-Authors
Lauren Grimes, MPH
Content Level
Novice
Tags
Collaborative Care Model of Integrated Care, Patient-centered care or Patient perspectives, Quality improvement programs
Session Type
Concurrent
Objective 1
Participants will be able to define principles of family-centered care
Objective 2
Participants will be able to identify strategies for assessing family-centered care
Objective 3
Participants will be able to apply feedback from family-centered care assessments to improve practice
Content Reference 1

Wells, N., Bronheim, S., Zyzanski, S., & Hoover, C. (2015). Psychometric evaluation of a consumer-developed family-centered care assessment tool. Maternal and child health journal, 19(9), 1899-1909.

Content Reference 2

Schlesinger, A., Sengupta, S., Marx, L., Hilt, R., Martini, D. R., DeMaso, D. R., ... & Walter, H. J. (2023). Clinical update: collaborative mental health care for children and adolescents in pediatric primary care. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(2), 91-119.

Content Reference 3

Hostutler, C. A., Shahidullah, J. D., Mautone, J. A., Rybak, T. M., Okoroji, C., Bruni, T., ... & Riley, A. R. (2025). A systematic review and meta-analysis of pediatric integrated primary care for the prevention and treatment of physical and behavioral health conditions. Journal of pediatric psychology, 50(7), 561-578.

Content Reference 4

Buka, S. L., Beers, L. S., Biel, M. G., Counts, N. Z., Hudziak, J., Parade, S. H., ... & Drury, S. S. (2022). The family is the patient: promoting early childhood mental health in pediatric care. Pediatrics, 149(Supplement 5), e2021053509L.

Content Reference 5

De Oliveira, R. G., & Carroll, I. C. (2025). Beyond depression and anxiety in pediatric primary care: Current insights from the collaborative care model. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 55(2), 101734.