Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- List of tables and boxes
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Assessment and treatment: general principles
- 3 Making a summary and action plan
- 4 Development and developmental problems
- 5 Intellectual disability
- 6 Habit disorders
- 7 Emotional problems
- 8 Behaviour and related problems
- 9 Specific problems in adolescence
- 10 Alcohol and drug dependency
- 11 Psychotic disorders
- 12 Chronic physical illness and disability
- 13 Physical illness without an identifiable physical explanation
- 14 Stressful situations
- 15 Parents and the needs of children
- 16 Mental health promotion
- 17 Medication
- References and suggested reading
- Appendix 1 My star chart
- Appendix 2 Guide to medication for use in childhood mental disorders
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- List of tables and boxes
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Assessment and treatment: general principles
- 3 Making a summary and action plan
- 4 Development and developmental problems
- 5 Intellectual disability
- 6 Habit disorders
- 7 Emotional problems
- 8 Behaviour and related problems
- 9 Specific problems in adolescence
- 10 Alcohol and drug dependency
- 11 Psychotic disorders
- 12 Chronic physical illness and disability
- 13 Physical illness without an identifiable physical explanation
- 14 Stressful situations
- 15 Parents and the needs of children
- 16 Mental health promotion
- 17 Medication
- References and suggested reading
- Appendix 1 My star chart
- Appendix 2 Guide to medication for use in childhood mental disorders
- Index
Summary
This manual is a guide to the assessment and management of children and adolescents with developmental, behavioural and emotional problems. It has been written mainly for primary care professionals, especially primary care physicians and nurses, working in lowand middle-income countries. Most of these do not have specialist paediatricians or mental health specialists available for advice and further care. We believe it is important for these primary care health professionals to be better able to help children and adolescents with mental health problems than they can at the present time. We hope the manual will also be found useful by teachers, social workers and school counsellors, and other professionals working with children and adolescents in similar places.
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- Where There Is No Child PsychiatristA Mental Healthcare Manual, pp. viPublisher: Royal College of PsychiatristsPrint publication year: 2012
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