An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Este artículo no está disponible.An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Are you looking to develop your expertise in child and adolescent mental health?

This fully revised and updated new edition will help you to:

1) understand the current social, policy and ideological context of child and adolescent mental health

2) develop an understanding of child and adolescent development and mental health conditions

3) identify appropriate mental health promotion strategies and mental health interventions

4) assess appropriate group work and communication strategies

5) improve knowledge and practice of children and adolescent safeguarding, rights and culture 

Written by a multi-disciplinary team of passionate and experienced experts, the book strikes the balance between introducing important and seminal theories and showing how these can be applied to real world practice. Packed with examples and activities to get you thinking and learning, it is an essential introduction for anyone interested in or working to improve child and adolescent mental health.

Madeleine Burton is a Registered Mental Health Nurse and for several years worked in both inpatient and community CAMHS. Maddie is currently Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the University of Worcester. Maddie continues to maintain close links with CAMHS practice and works with schools from a CAMH perspective. She holds membership of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the Association for Infant Mental Health. Maddie’s research interests include suicide and self-harm in children and young people, infant, maternal and parental mental health.