Mental health services for vulnerable children and young people : supporting children who are, or have been, in foster care / edited by Michael Tarren-Sweeney and Arlene Vetere.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tarren-Sweeney, Michael.

Vetere, Arlene.

Series:

Routledge advances in health and social policy.

Routledge advances in health and social policy

Routledge advances in health and social policyve

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child mental health services.

Youth--Mental health services.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological disorders. This book outlines how services can effectively detect, prevent, and treat mental health difficulties in this vulnerable population.Responding to increasing evidence that standard child and adolescent mental health services are poorly matched to the mental health service needs of children and young people who have been in foster care, this

Contents:

Establishing the need for mental health services for children and young people in care, and those who are subsequently adopted / Michael Tarren-Sweeney and Arlene Vetere

The benefits of outpatient mental health services for children in long-term foster care / Jennifer Bellamy, Geetha Gopalan, and Dorian Traube

Our 21st century quest : locating effective mental health interventions for children and young people in care, and those adopted from care / Michael Tarren-Sweeney

Enhancing adoptive parenting : from a trial of effectiveness to translation / Alan Rushton

The "Spirit of New Orleans" : translating a model of intervention with maltreated children and their families for the Glasgow Context / Helen Minnis ... [et al.]

Social-emotional screening and intervention for 0-4 year-old children entering care / Carol Hardy and Elizabeth Murphy

Using an attachment narrative approach with families where the children are looked after or adopted / Rudi and Annie Dallos

Ten years later : the experience of a CAMHS service for children in care / Megan Chambers

Multi-agency and specialist working to meet the mental health needs of children in care and adopted / Kim Golding

Some reflections on the use of psychiatric diagnosis in the looked after or 'in care' child population / Margaret DeJong

The making and breaking of relationships : organizational and clinical questions in establishing a family life for looked after children / John Simmonds

Principles for the design of mental health services for children and young people in care, and those adopted from care / Michael Tarren-Sweeney.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-138-96016-0

0-203-09547-2

1-136-21396-1

1-136-21397-X

9780203095478

OCLC:

858231070