Increasing Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Herausgeber: Garralda, Elena M.; Raynaud, Jean-Philippe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

M. Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to increase 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. Chapters address the effects on child mental health of issues including secular changes in family composition in both Western and Eastern countries, rapid industrialization, poverty, deprivation, adoption, refugee status, and aboriginal life. The book also considers emerging issues, such as cyber addiction, PTSD, ADHD across different cultures, and the autism 'epidemic.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780765706621
• ISBN-10: 0765706628
• Artikelnr.: 28527910

Autorenporträt

M. Elena Garralda is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Imperial College, London. Jean-Philippe Raynaud is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, head of department at Toulouse University Hospital, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Editorial Introduction Part 3 Part I: Influences on
child and adolescent mental health Chapter 4 Chapter 1: From epidemiology
of child and adolescent mental health problems to service utilisation
Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Family structure and children's mental health in
Western countries Chapter 6 Chapter 3: One-child policy and child mental
health Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Industrialization: Its impact on child and
adolescent mental health Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Child refugee mental health
Part 9 Part II: Individual disorders/problems Chapter 10 Chapter 6: The
boundaries of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder Chapter 11 Chapter
7: Changes in psychiatric problems of children and adolescents in Japan:
from internalising to externalising symptoms Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Trends
in autism rates: is there an epidemic? Chapter 13 Chapter 9: PTSD in
mothers coping with trauma in their children Part 14 Part III: Treatment
and services Chapter 15 Chapter 10: Paediatric Psychosomatic medicine:
emotional health in children with chronic illness Chapter 16 Chapter 11:
Autism spectrum disorder and traditional Chinese medicine (acupuncture)
Chapter 17 Chapter 12: Development of child mental health services in
Central and Eastern Europe Chapter 18 Chapter 13: An historical approach to
the discovery and promotion of child mental health