Description
Book Synopsis
This book is an accessible and practical guide to all of the key issues and practices in mental health care for children and young people, aimed at all health and social care professionals working with this age group and partner agencies who work alongside child and adolescent mental health services.
Written by an expert in the field, the book brings clarity to practice by exploring and explaining the context, role and processes involving child and adolescent mental health services. It also sets out the specific mental health difficulties young people and their families present to services as well as how to make good health assessments, plans and interventions used in the treatment of children and young people â including managing risk and safeguarding.
Features of the book include:
â Questions to encourage your reflection on different key issues in your own practice
â Up to date information on current policy
â Key points summaries and su
Table of Contents
About the author
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The strategic context
3. The agency context
4. The context for the child, young person and family
5. Child and adolescent mental health services
6. CAMHS processes
7. Assessment in CAMHS
8. Specific mental health difficulties, part one
9. Specific mental health difficulties, part two
10. Risk
11. Interventions
12. Conclusion
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