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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463197703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-138-96016-0

0-203-09547-2

1-136-21396-1

1-136-21397-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (444 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in health and social policyve

Routledge advances in health and social policy

Altri autori (Persone)

Tarren-SweeneyMichael

VetereArlene

Disciplina

362.2083

Soggetti

Child mental health services

Youth - Mental health services

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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