Setting the scene / Anne Claveirole -- The family / Duncan Tennant and Anne Claveirole -- Psychosocial development / Geraldine Jones -- Self-harm / Martin Gaughan -- Depression / Martin Gaughan -- Suicide / Martin Gaughan -- Child abuse / Julie Hendry and Marlene Mcinnes -- Eating disorders / Gavin Cullen -- Early onset psychosis / Martin Gaughan -- ADHD / Lorna Jones and Anne Claveirole -- Autistic spectrum disorders / Gillian Marshall-McConnell and Anne Claveirole -- Misuse of substances / Liz Brodie and Jayne Reed
Summary
Understanding Children & Young People's Mental Health has been designed to help the student and newly qualified health care professional to familiarise themselves with the key theoretical frameworks which underpin the field of children and young people's mental health. It explores the mental health challenges that children and young people face, and how we as adults can work alongside them to help them face and overcome such challenges. This book provides comprehensive information on the theory and practice of particular mental health difficulties which children and young people may have to fa
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-304) and index
