Mental health interventions and services for vulnerable children and young people
By: edited by Panos Vostanis ; foreword by Richard Williams
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781846427220; 9781281733825
Subjects: MEDICAL; Child mental health services; Mental Health Services; Youth; Child & Adolescent; Therapy; Vulnerable Populations; Child; Psychiatry; Mental health services; Mental Disorders
Description: This book provides a model which offers guidance on effective and appropriate therapeutic interventions and services for vulnerable children and young people (commonly children who have experienced trauma, abuse, domestic violence or neglect). By addressing practice, theory and policy, the book enables professionals working with vulnerable children to choose the right intervention for each individual child. Contributors examine best practice across the UK, the US and Europe and compile the findings in a way that can be incorporated into everyday practice. Mental Health Interventions and Servic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Panos Vostanis; title: Developing a policy framework for vulnerable children with mental health needs: challenges and possibilities / Miranda Wolpert; title: Vulnerable children's rights to services / Maria Stuttaford; title: Ethical issues in working therapeutically with vulnerable children / Sharon Leighton; title: Tackling the stigma of mental health in vulnerable children and young people / Fiona Gale; title: Interventions for foster carers and adoptive parents of children who have experienced abuse and trauma / Jeanette Allen; title: Therapeutic issues in working individually with vulnerable children and young people / Vicki Edwards; title: Cognitive-behavioural interventions for young offenders / Ellen Townsend; title: Working systemically with vulnerable children and their parents or carers / Maeve Mccolgan.; title: Interventions and services for refugee and asylum-seeking children and families / Viki Elliott; title: Therapeutic services for homeless families and young people / Panos Vostanis; title: Helping families who are victims of domestic abuse / Rachel Brooks, Elspeth Webb; title: Mental health services for children with an intellectual disability / Helen Pote; title: Children with physical illness / Khalid Karim; title: The identification, prevention and treatment of vulnerabilities among children of alcohol- or drug-dependent parents / Jeffrey J. Wilson, Lacey Beckmann, Edward V. Nunes; title: Cultural diversity issues in working with vulnerable children / Nisha Dogra; title: US perspectives on interventions for vulnerable and underserved youth / Niranjan S. Karnik, Brenda Krause Eheart, Martha Bauman Power, Hans Steiner; title: Service models and policies in European countries / Vaya Papageorgiou; title: Mental health interventions and services for vulnerable children and young people: the way forward / Panos Vostanis.