9 TH WORLD CONGRESS ON THE PROMOTION OF MENTAL HEALTH SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH PRE-CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 BRIDGING RESEARCH, TRAINING, POLICY & PRACTICE.

9 T H W O R L D C O N G R E SS O N T H E P R O M O T I O N O F M E N TA L H E A LT H

S C H O O L M E N TA L H E A LT H P R E - C O N F E R E N C ES E P T E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 5

BRIDGING RESEARCH, TRAINING, POLICY & PRACTICE

MELISSA GEORGE, SETH BERNSTEIN & CHRISTINA PATE

Mental Health-Education Integration Consortium & Carolina Network for School Mental Health

AGENDA

Purpose Opportunity to share about MHEDIC & CNSMH Highlight the spirit of these organizations Provide a space for active collaboration

Example: Social Network Analysis Purposefully thinking about and evaluating our

collaboration Roundtable Discussions on Critical SMH themes

Bridging Research, Training, Practice & PolicyGroup Discussion on StrategiesClosing

Social Network Analysis

SNA-INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

Research conducted by Liz Mellin & Naorah Lockhart

Interdisciplinary collaborative groups increasing in both research and practice

Often use network language (members/actors and relational ties) to describe these collaborations

Social network analysis (SNA) – measures interdependent relationships among group members – important for understanding the structure and accomplishments of social networks like MHEDIC

CURRENT STUDY

Document the structure of MHEDIC and knowledge transfer across traditional disciplinary/professional boundaries.

Examination of the way in which members are tied with other members from their home discipline/profession and members from other disciplines or professions.

METHODS

Eligible if attended at least 2 MHEDIC meetings between Fall 2010 and Fall 2013 (36 members eligible)

Developed survey based on Haines et al., (2011) that asked each member about his/her connections to other members within 6 different types of relationships (cite, co-author, grants, met professionally, mentoring, co-present)

UCINET 6.0 to analyze networks

CO-AUTHORED

MHEDIC members not included in this relational network

M01 = LMM10 = MWM15 = ABM29 = DBM37 = AIPink = CounselingOrange = EducationBlue = PsychologyGreen = Social Work

CO-PRESENTED

M01 = LMM10 = MWM15 = ABM29 = DBM37 = AIPink = CounselingOrange = EducationBlue = PsychologyGreen = Social Work

VALUE OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN MHEDIC

COLLABORATIVE SUCCESSES Expanding network Professional

advancement New ways of thinking,

new knowledge Diversifying ideas in

home profession/discipline

MISSED OPPORTUNITIES Lack of representation

from education in membership

Funded research Disciplinary/profession

centrism within the group

Roundtable Discussions

ROUNDTABLE ACTIVITY- SMHILE THEMES

Workforce DevelopmentInterdisciplinary & Cross-system

CollaborationQuality AssuranceImplementation of EBPsFamily, student and stakeholder

involvement

ROUNDTABLE ACTIVITY

Describe what bridging research, training, policy and practice means to you?

Discuss what critical next steps or issues need to be addressed to advance this bridge?

Describe how professional organizations can help to bridge?

Share out with the large group: Describe 1 to 3 strategies for bridging research, training, policy and practice (within individual organizations and/or across organizations).

Strategies for Bridging Gaps?

For More Information

Visit www.mhedic.org

Dawn Anderson-Butcher, MHEDIC [email protected]

Jill Hoffman, Graduate Student [email protected]

Visit carolinanetwork.org

Kurt Michael, CNSMH Co-Founder and [email protected]

Mark Weist, CNSMH Co-Founder and [email protected]