Child and adolescent mental health : theory and practice

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An essential textbook for students and professionals working with children, adolescents and their families in the field of child and adolescent mental health. Abstract: An essential textbook for students and professionals working with children, adolescents and their families in the field of child and adolescent mental health. Read more... Content: Book title -- Contributors -- Foreword -- 1. Towards comprehensive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) -- 2. Early intervention services -- 3. The role of the educational psychologist -- 4. Who does what in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services -- 5. Nurse prescribing -- 6. Primary mental health in the community -- 7. Primary mental health work within a specialist CAMHS team -- 8. Aetiology and classification -- 9. Epidemiology of behaviour problems -- 10. Genetics -- 11. Assessing paediatric and psychological development -- 12. Emotional development and attachment 13. Emotional wellbeing and literacy -- 14. Current legal framework and relevant legislation -- 15. Making treatment decisions with young people -- 16. Fostering and adoption -- 17. The effect of early institutional deprivation on the brain: findings from the English and Romanian adoptees study -- Introduction to assessment -- 18. Engagement and motivation -- 19. Structured assessment of preschool children: observation of parent-child relationship -- 20. Parenting style -- 21. Assessment of younger children and families: individual interview of child -- 22. Assessment of older children, young people and their families 23. Family assessment -- 24. Genograms -- 25. Narrative therapy -- 26. The use of questionnaires in the diagnosis of child mental health problems -- 27. Cognitive assessment in children and young people -- 28. Speech and language assessment -- 29. Occupational therapy assessment -- Introduction -- 30. Temperament -- 31. Crying -- 32. Emotionality in children and young people and links to psychopathology -- 33. Juvenile disruptive behaviour disorders: oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD) -- 34. Forensic child and adolescent psychiatry -- 35. Substance misuse -- 36. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 37. Epilepsy -- 38. Tourette syndrome -- 39. Autistic spectrum disorder -- 40. Education for children on the autism spectrum -- 41. Social stories for parents of autistic children -- 42. Behavioural problems in children with learning difficulties -- 43. Anxiety and phobias -- 44. Obsessive compulsive disorder -- 45. Body dysmorphic disorder -- 46. Mood disorders -- 47. Bipolar disorder in children and young people -- 48. Deliberate self-harm and suicide -- 49. School refusal behaviour -- 50. Psychosis -- 51. Eating disorders -- 52. Behavioural sleep problems in children and adolescents -- 53. Feeding/eating problems in young children 54. Enuresis, constipation and soiling -- 55. Psychosomatic disorders -- dissociative disorder and psychological disorders -- 56. An example of a therapeutic group intervention for children and adolescents with chronic medical conditions: The IMPACT Group -- 57. Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in children and adolescents -- 58. Chronic illness in children and young people -- 59. Gender identity disorder -- 60. Management of grief, loss and bereavement -- Introduction -- 61. Working with diversity -- cultural competence in child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) -- 62. Young carers 63. Asylum seeking, refugee and homeless young people and families.