Mental Health Interventions and Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People
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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 Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People will be an invaluable tool for those working with vulnerable children and young people including child mental health and welfare professionals and agencies, as well as social workers, policy makers and academics teaching or studying child mental health.
About this Author
Panos Vostanis is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Leicester. He has previously co-edited Homeless Children: Problems and Needs, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, and has written numerous research articles and book chapters on child and adolescent psychiatry.
Reviews
'Mental Health Interventions and Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People will be an invaluable tool for those working with vulnerable children and young people including child mental health and welfare professionals and agancies, as well as social workers, policy makers and academics teaching or studying child mental health.' - Handicap Info'This book is very easy to read, educational and absorbing.'- Counselling Children and Young People'In reading this book I found myself adopting a reflective approach to aspects and issues associated with delivering an effective metal health service to children and young people who are vulnerable because of social, medical and psychological influences... Reading it caused me to be more critically evaluative of an area of work in which I am frequently involved.'- Seen and Heard
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