Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2E Theory and Practice

Summary:
The book covers all the core aspects of child and adolescent mental health, starting with the background to emotional and behavioural problems and looking at models and tools for assessment and treatment before examining specifi c problems encountered in children, young people and their families from different cultural backgrounds.

Key features

• Completely updated to reflect new government initiatives and advances in genetics
• Chapters structured to incorporate difficulties which span the age spectrum but present differently over time(e.g.eating disorders, depression, DHD, sleep difficulties)
• Reader-friendly introductions to chapters, including literature and website references and illustrating the different clinical presentations through case examples and treatment plans.
• Website with extra case studies, and references with links to medline.
• Caters for the multi-disciplinary team dealing with tier 1 services to the more serious conditions
• Provides more information on resources and educational services

Table of Contents:
Towards comprehensive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Early intervention services
The role of the educational psychologist
Who does what in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services?
Nurse prescriber
Primary mental health in the community
Primary mental health work within a specialist CAMHS team
Aetiology and classification
Epidemiology of behaviour problems
Genetics
Assessing paediatric and psychological development
Emotional development and attachment
Emotional well-being and literacy
Current legal framework and relevant legislation
Making treatment decisions with young people
Fostering and adoption
The effect of early institutional deprivation on the brain
Engagement and motivation
Structured assessment of pre-school children
Parenting style
Assessment of younger children and their families
Assessment of older children, young people and their families
Family assessment
Genograms
Narrative therapy
The use of questionnaires
Cognitive assessment
Speech and language assessment
OT assessment including neuro-sensory approaches
Temperament
Crying
Emotionality in children and young people and links to psychopathology
Juvenile disruptive behaviour disorders: ODD and CD
Forensic child and adolescent psychiatry
Substance misuse in children and young people
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Epilepsy
Tourette syndrome
Austistic spectrum disorder
Education for children on the autistic spectrum
Social stories for parents of autistic children
Behavioural problems in children with learning difficulties
Anxiety and phobias
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder
Mood disorders
Bipolar disorder
Deliberate self-harm and suicide
School refusal behaviour
Psychosis
Eating disorders
Behavioural sleep problems in children and adolescents
Feeding/eating problems in young children
Enuresis, constipation and soiling
Psychosomatic disorders: dissociative disorder and psychological disorders
Example of a therapeutic group intervention: The IMPACT Group
Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis
Chronic illness in children and young people
Gender identity disorder
Management of grief: loss and bereavement
Working with diversity - cultural competence in CAMHS
Young carers
Asylum seeking, refugee and homeless young people and families
Young Carers from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds
Emerging sexuality
Art therapy
Play therapy
Child psychotherapy
Counselling children and young people
Counselling psychology
Applied behavioural analysis (including children with learning difficulties)
Cognitive behaviour therapy
Social Stories
Family therapy models and practice
Solution focused brief therapy
Parenting programmes
Principles of group work
Group work of with parents of children with ADHD
Group work with adolescents
Inpatient services
Example of a children's residential unit
Forensic CAMHS: Bluebird House
Appendices

About the Author(s):
Margaret Thompson MBChB, MD, FRCP (Glas), FRCPsy School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK

Christine M Hooper BA (econ), CQSW, MSc Retired family and marital therapist, New Forest, Hampshire, UK

Cathy Laver-Bradbury SRN, RSCN, HV, MSc Consultant Nurse, Solent Healthcare NHS and University of Southampton, UK

Christopher Gale RNMH, MSc Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Southampton, UK

Readership:
Psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, child behaviour experts, psychotherapists, mental health workers.