Increasing Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Contributions by Charlotte Allenou, Charles Baily, Cornelio Banaag, Philippe Birmes, Rossana Bisceglia, Rodrigo Chazan, C Cheung, Vanessa Loi-Yan Chu, Eric Fombonne, Tamsin Ford, Jean-Yves Hayez, Franck Hazane, Schuyler Henderson, Jennifer Jenkins, Kazu Kobayashi, Bertrand Olliac, Maryland Pao, Guilherme Polanczyk, Robertas Povilaitis, Dainius Puras, Lisa Reisinger, Luis Rohde, Kapil Sayal, Sadaaki Shirataki, Rebecca Simon, Mandy Steiman, Emily Swinkin, Stevan Weine, Virginia Chun-Nei Wong, Yi Zheng Edited by Elena M. Garralda, Jean-Philippe Raynaud
Publication date:
12 April 2010Length of book:
338 pagesPublisher
Jason Aronson, Inc.ISBN-13: 9780765706614
In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special consideration to problems arising in different contexts around the world and through expert views supported by empirical evidence and considering clinical implications.
There is increasing recognition worldwide of the importance of child and adolescent mental health problems, of the distress and impairment they can cause to children and their families, and of the markedly adverse effects on education and on adult psychiatric adjustment when left untreated. Globally, however, services to attend to these problems in children are uneven and patchy. There is a need to advance awareness of child and adolescent mental health and of factors that influence them.
Chapters address the effects on child mental health of issues ranging from secular changes in family composition in both western and eastern countries, rapid industrialization, poverty, deprivation, and adoption, to refugee status and aboriginal life. It considers emerging issues, such as cyber addiction, PTSD, ADHD across different cultures, and the autistic "epidemic." They discuss new service developments (Eastern Europe, paediatric liaison services) in the context of traditional methods (traditional Chinese medicine).
There is increasing recognition worldwide of the importance of child and adolescent mental health problems, of the distress and impairment they can cause to children and their families, and of the markedly adverse effects on education and on adult psychiatric adjustment when left untreated. Globally, however, services to attend to these problems in children are uneven and patchy. There is a need to advance awareness of child and adolescent mental health and of factors that influence them.
Chapters address the effects on child mental health of issues ranging from secular changes in family composition in both western and eastern countries, rapid industrialization, poverty, deprivation, and adoption, to refugee status and aboriginal life. It considers emerging issues, such as cyber addiction, PTSD, ADHD across different cultures, and the autistic "epidemic." They discuss new service developments (Eastern Europe, paediatric liaison services) in the context of traditional methods (traditional Chinese medicine).
Increasing Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health is a remarkable book, in a single volume providing professionals and others interested in child mental health an overview of the major contemporary issues relevant to child mental health. These include, among others, urbanization and the nuclear family, the unintended consequences of the single-child policy in China, and the concern over an epidemic of autism. With strong, evidence-based chapters by leading authors, this book is exciting to read and learn from.