Nursing in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Contributors: Hogan, Sarah; Leighton, Sharon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Maidenhead
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780335239382
Subjects: Psychiatry; MEDICAL; Child psychiatric nursing; Adolescent psychiatric nursing; Child & Adolescent
Description: Focuses on child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) for nurses training and working in this field. This book explores the various roles CAMH nurses fulfil and considers how these roles might be undertaken with confidence. It looks at how to assess the different issues and the various interventions used in practice.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Half title page; Title page; Copyright page; Praise for the book; Contents; The editors; The contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Defining mental health and mental illness. Sharon Leighton and Nisha Dogra; 2 Child and family development. Mani Das Gupta and Clay Frake; 3 The aetiology of child mental health problems. Nisha Dogra, Mani Das Gupta and Sharon Leighton; 4 Legal and ethical considerations in CAMH. Sharon Leighton; 5 Nursing assessment in CAMHS. Nisha Dogra and Laurence Baldwin; 6 Counselling and the therapeutic use of self. Sharon Leighton.; title: 7 Family work and CAMHS nursing. Clay Frake8 Cognitive behavioural therapy and the CAMH nurse. Michael Hodgkinson; 9 Nurse prescribing and medication management in CAMHS. Noreen Ryan and Teresa Norris; 10 Inpatient CAMH nursing: two different models of care. Sarah Hogan, Ged Rogers and Neil Hemstock; 11 Multi-agency working. Sarah Hogan, Nisha Dogra and Cath Kitchen; 12 Working with vulnerable children and young people. Viki Elliott.