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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIncreasing Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health is a remarkable book, in a single volume providing professionals and others interested in child mental health an overview of the major contemporary issues relevant to child mental health. These include, among others, urbanization and the nuclear family, the unintended consequences of the single-child policy in China, and the concern over an epidemic of autism. With strong, evidence-based chapters by leading authors, this book is exciting to read and learn from. -- Myron L. Belfer, MD, MPA, Harvard Medical School
This book provides a rich, stimulating, and up-to-date account of the state of child mental health throughout the world. I can thoroughly recommend it to all child and adolescent mental health professionals who wish to broaden their horizons and gain new perspectives on their own practice. -- Philip Graham, emeritus professor of child psychiatry, Institute of Child Health, London
The book provides an excellent review of child and adolescent mental health issues from a transcultural perspective. The 13 chapters, written by experienced clinicians and researchers, focus on influences on child mental health, individual problems/disorders, and treatment issues. A special feature of the book is the inclusion of psychosocial problems like the mental health of refugee children, the impact of the one-child policy in China, and changes in psychiatric problems in Japan. The book can warmly be recommended to an international readership. -- Helmut Remschmidt, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Philipps-University, Germany
Table of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Editorial Introduction Part 3 Part I: Influences on child and adolescent mental health Chapter 4 Chapter 1: From epidemiology of child and adolescent mental health problems to service utilisation Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Family structure and children's mental health in Western countries Chapter 6 Chapter 3: One-child policy and child mental health Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Industrialization: Its impact on child and adolescent mental health Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Child refugee mental health Part 9 Part II: Individual disorders/problems Chapter 10 Chapter 6: The boundaries of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Changes in psychiatric problems of children and adolescents in Japan: from internalising to externalising symptoms Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Trends in autism rates: is there an epidemic? Chapter 13 Chapter 9: PTSD in mothers coping with trauma in their children Part 14 Part III: Treatment and services Chapter 15 Chapter 10: Paediatric Psychosomatic medicine: emotional health in children with chronic illness Chapter 16 Chapter 11: Autism spectrum disorder and traditional Chinese medicine (acupuncture) Chapter 17 Chapter 12: Development of child mental health services in Central and Eastern Europe Chapter 18 Chapter 13: An historical approach to the discovery and promotion of child mental health
