Citation

Henderson JL, Mackay S, Peterson-Badali M. Am. J. Community Psychol. 2010; 46(3-4): 277-288.

Affiliation

Child, Youth, and Family Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, 250 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 1R8, Canada, Joanna_henderson@camh.net.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1007/s10464-010-9349-2

PMID

20857330

Abstract

Collaborative approaches are being increasingly advocated for addressing a variety of health, mental health and social needs for children, youth and families. Factors important for effective knowledge translation of collaborative approaches of service delivery across disciplines, however, have not been rigorously examined. TAPP-C: The Arson Prevention Program for Children is an intervention program for child and adolescent firesetters provided collaboratively by fire service and mental health professionals. The present study examined the adopter, innovation, and dissemination characteristics associated with TAPP-C implementation, protocol adherence and extent of collaboration by 241 community-based fire service professionals from communities across Ontario. Results revealed that dissemination factors are particularly important for understanding program implementation, adherence and cross-discipline collaboration. Moreover, the findings of this study show significant benefits to both within discipline (intra-disciplinary) and across discipline (interdisciplinary) knowledge translation strategies.

Language: en