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Book SynopsisSocial inequality and social disadvantage provide an all too fertile soil that sustains the majority of the serious mental health problems suffered by children in our society. The complexity of the issues clinicians routinely encounter in working with children with mental health problems is widely acknowledged.
Table of ContentsAbout the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Foreword by Professor Michael Edwards.
Part I: Policy and Research Background to Working with the Hard to Reach.
1 The early social and emotional determinants of inequalities in health. (Peter Fonagy and Anna Higgitt).
2 What evidence for evidence-based prevention? (Peter Fonagy).
3 Overview of child and adolescent mental health policy and service provision in England: Attempts to reach the hard to reach. (Miranda Wolpert, Paula Lavis, Richard Wistow and Bob Foster).
Part II: Specific Intervention Programmes Working with the Hard to Reach.
4 A study of multisystemic therapy: A new type of help in the UK for young people in trouble with the law. (Geoffrey Baruch and Jacqueline Cannon).
5 Barefoot practitioners: A proposal for a manualized, home-based, adolescent crisis intervention project. (Eia Asen and Dickon Bevington).
6 Developing an enhanced care model for depression using primary care mental health workers: Implications for the care and management of young men with depression. (Stephen Pilling, Judy Leibowitz, John Cape, Jemma Simmons, Pamela Jacobsen and Irwin Nazareth).
7 The hard to reach and the Place2Be. (Peter Wilson and Benita Refson).
Epilogue by David Robins.
Bibliography.
Index.
