Download or read book Strengthening Child and Adolescent Mental Health CAMH Services and Systems in Lower and Middle Income Countries LMICs written by Manasi Kumar and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlas written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collaborative ATLAS project is a systematic attempt to collect information from countries around the world on existing services and resources relating to child and adolescent mental health services. The primary purposes of this initial report are to stimulate additional data gathering and to encourage the development of policy, services and training. Issues discussed include: methods and limitations of the project, rights of the child and adolescent, policy and programmes, information systems, service system gaps and service integration, barriers to care, care providers, training and financing of care services, availability and use of medication.
Download or read book The System of Care Handbook written by Beth A. Stroul and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Address the urgent need for individualized, coordinated mental health care with this book--the only one-stop reference for establishing, evaluating, and improving services and systems of care for children and adolescents with mental health challenges and their families. The new cornerstone of the highly respected Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health series, this comprehensive volume helps administrators, program developers, and clinicians from mental health and partner child-serving systems skillfully navigate every key issue they may encounter on the road to effective service delivery. Weaving all the latest research and best practices into a single accessible handbook, more than 60 expert contributors give readers the in-depth, practical knowledge they need to develop comprehensive, community-based, coordinated systems of care for youth with mental health challenges and their families avoid duplication and fragmentation of services across mental health and other child-serving systems develop individualized care plans for children with complex needs and implement the "wraparound" approach to service delivery incorporate evidence-based practices into systems of care use smart financing strategies that make the most of multiple funding streams ensure the full participation of families and youth in service planning and delivery improve services and care coordination across a variety of systems--schools, child welfare, juvenile justice work effectively with youth and families from diverse backgrounds and communities conduct accurate program evaluation and continuous quality improvement use the best professional development strategies to ensure a skilled and dedicated workforce Throughout the book, extended case studies of children, youth, families, and successful programs take readers beyond the abstract and reveal in vivid detail how high-quality services can transform the lives of children and youth--from early childhood to their transition to adulthood--as well as their families and caregivers. A must-own compendium of knowledge for anyone involved in shaping the future of mental health services, this book is the new blueprint for systems of care that truly respond to the needs of children, youth and families. Learn more about the Systems of Care for Children's Mental Health series.
Download or read book Designing Mental Health Services and Systems for Children and Adolescents written by J. Gerald Young and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Blueprint for Change written by United States. National Advisory Mental Health Council. Workgroup on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Intervention Development and Deployment and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mental Health Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People written by Michael Tarren-Sweeney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 book provides expert guidance on the design of specialised services. The first part provides an overview of these children’s mental health needs, their use of mental health services and what is known about the effectiveness of mental health interventions provided to them. The second part presents some recent innovations in mental health service delivery, concentrating on advances in clinical and developmental assessment and treatment. The final part confronts the challenges for delivering effective mental health services in this area. This is the definitive international reference for the design of specialised mental health services for children and young people in care and those adopted from care. It is invaluable reading for health and social care professionals working with this population and academics with an interest in child and adolescent mental health from a range of disciplines, including social work, nursing and psychology.
Download or read book Redressing the Emperor written by John S. Lyons and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging treatise on the state of our children's mental health system, explaining why needed improvements are non-existent or inconsistent, and describing two strategies to fuel evolution of the system for better service to our youngsters.
Download or read book Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services written by Richard Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume synthesizes material and evidence on how best to plan and deliver child and adolescent mental health care services, providing a one-stop reference guide for all those with responsibilty for these services. It includes a concise update on the most common child psychiatric conditions.
Download or read book Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services written by Taiwo Afuape and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services weaves together different strands of mental health work undertaken in one inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by professionals working in a range of ways. In particular, it provides examples of how an urban CAMH service has been responsive to, and influenced by, local circumstances, resources and knowledge. The book explores the relationship between professionals and the community context, which provides the background to the lives of individual service users and the families they serve, and how this relationship is integral to the development of a responsive service. The chapters cover a range of settings and approaches, addressing the social, cultural, political and community contexts impacting on children, young people and families. In this way Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services explores challenges and issues emerging in a responsive approach to child and family work in all community settings whether they be urban, suburban or rural. Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services is intended for mental health and social care professionals involved in therapeutic, social and pastoral work with children, young people, families and communities. The book will be of interest to policy-makers, mental health and social care professionals, health visitors, general practitioners, nurses and midwives , as well as to trainees in these professions including trainee clinical psychologists, social workers or psychoanalytic and systemic psychotherapists. It will also appeal to those interested in responsive communities and critical approaches to therapeutic interventions in mental health work, psychology, psychotherapy and counselling.
Download or read book Children s Mental Health and the Life Course Model A Virtual Workshop Series written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rapidly rising rates of mental health disorders, changing patterns of occurrence, and increasing levels of morbidity, the need for a better understanding of the developmental origins and influence of mental health on children’s behavioral health outcomes has become critical. This need for better understanding extends to both the growing prevalence of mental health disorders as well as the role and impact of neurodevelopmental pathways in their onset and expression. Addressing these changes in disease patterns and effects on children and families will require a multifaceted approach that goes beyond simply making changes to clinical care or adding personnel to the health services system. New policies, financing, and implementation can put established best practices and numerous research findings from around the country into action. The Maternal and Child Health Life Course Intervention Research Network and the Forum for Children's Well-Being at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine jointly organized a webinar series to explore how mental health disorders develop over the life course, with a special emphasis on prenatal, early, middle, and later childhood development. This series centered on identifying gaps in our knowledge, exploring possible new strategies for using existing data to enhance understanding of the developmental origins of mental disorders, reviewing potential approaches to prevention and optimization, and proposing new ways of framing how to understand, address, and prevent these disorders from a life course development perspective. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the series.
Download or read book Developing the Capacity to Respond to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Needs written by Susan Croom and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AbstractThis thesis focuses on child and adolescent mental health. Epidemiological studies show that in order to manage the high prevalence of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) problems within the finite resources of CAMH services, it is necessary to develop innovative practice research and development. Research and literature in CAMH is dominated by the quantitative paradigm rather than participative and qualitative approaches. However, research indicates that although evidence based strategies, derived from this research perspective, such as manualised parenting programmes, can be effective for children with challenging behaviours, that the most vulnerable parents are the most difficult to engage and maintain within community parenting programmes. This thesis takes a practitioner research perspective in order to work collaboratively with a small population of vulnerable parents, whose children have challenging behaviours that are interfering with the family's everyday life and impacting on the child's ability to meet their social, emotional and developmental goals. It builds upon a previous research project with nurses in a residential setting. The nursing project identified a specialist set of knowledge and skills, which were found to be useful in informing 24 hour care provision for children in a residential CAMH Unit and improving the behavioural outcomes for the children being looked after. The nurses' role overlaps with parents in the provision of 24 hour care, but the extent to which this nursing knowledge learnt in the previous study can be used by parents to maintain improvements in children's behaviour was not known. This thesis used a combination of qualitative methods within a participative action research approach and a critical theory perspective to engage in emancipatory research with parents as co-researchers. Action research starts from the premise that the solution to our problems are in our own hands and knowledge and understanding can only be developed through an exploration and learning from our everyday experiences. This thesis set out to learn:(1) Whether the nursing knowledge, derived from the nursing project, is transferable to parents in their community setting, and useful to parents when Caring for their children with challenging behaviours in maintaining and improving behavioural outcomes.(2) Whether parents can refine and develop the nursing knowledge and so add to a cumulative body of practice knowledge related to the 24 hour care of children with challenging behaviours(3) Whether gaining access to this knowledge as participants within the research process can increase the potential capacity of parents to be able to respond to their children(4) Whether the knowledge and potential capacity of the wider system providers and policy makers can be increased through access to the parents' knowledge, expertise and experiences in caring for children with challenging behaviours. In undertaking this research it is important to distinguish between the practice development and the research process. Action research is used to distinguish the two processes. The practice development incorporates an action research cycle which enables a learning process to occur in which new knowledge can be produced that can be subsequently theorised. Theorisation is used to critique the oppressive care processes produced by the medical model and to theorise alternative practice processes that can be used to overcome the oppression inherent in the medical model and increase the effectiveness of CAMH services. Twenty-five parents met the sampling criteria by engaging in at least one action research cycle. The action research cycles were used to explore extent to which the nursing knowledge and skills were transferable to parents in a community setting. Critical incidents were used to explore the parents' experiences of knowledge transfer. The findings illustrated that the transfer of the nursing knowledge to parents was useful, but not sufficient to increase the parents' capacity to respond to their child's needs because of a complex range of socio-political factors that differentially impacted on the parents' lives, compared to the nurses in the residential setting. This included isolation, guilt, housing and socioeconomic factors. In addition, the parents identified that they were subject to a range of oppressive forces that potentially reduced their capacity to respond to their children. Many of these tacit forces were found to be embedded in the medical discourse around CAMH practice and include a tendency to engage in the professional hegemony of knowledge, which legitimates the power of professionals to define the norms of behaviour in ways that can be oppressive towards and pathologising of vulnerable groups of children, who may not conform to a narrow construction of behavioural norms and the tacit idealisation and devaluation of carers. Together these can provide a rationale for blaming parents and for investing in services designed to improve parenting competencies whilst not having to address the wider socio-political determinants of child behaviour. The research findings indicate that challenging these oppressive assumptions within a supportive group setting, in which the parents actively participated in the research process, helped the parents to challenge and in some cases to transform their situation and that of their child. In keeping with a participative action research, the findings from the collaborative research with the parents are synthesised into a practice framework, which represents the emerging action plan. A critical analysis of the opportunities and constraints for implementing this action plan is provided. The research demonstrates that engaging in participative research with clients whilst also engaged in practice is a complex and problematic process, which requires an innovative combination of methods but which can produce new and innovative ways of theorising practice processes and outcomes. Through the research process described in this thesis the oppressive nature of many well-intentioned aspects of CAMH practice are revealed and theorised. In taking this analysis forward practice processes and outcomes are theorised in the context of both the medical and social models of health. The research demonstrates how these two models can be integrated in practice and how the process of integration has the potential to enable the development of a cumulative and integrative body of emancipatory practice knowledge, which acknowledges and addresses the complexity, uncertainly and unpredictability of clients 24 hour experiences but at the same time maximises the total set of resources available to both support families and also to widen the capacity of professionals and service providers to develop insightful and non-oppressive solutions.
Download or read book International Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Mental Health written by Nirbhay N Singh and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-04-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers included in this volume highlight research and practice in child and adolescent mental health from around the world. As systems of care are different across countries and cultures, it is imperative that knowledge is shared and lessons learned. The biennial Elsevier conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health is designed to provide a forum for mental health and educational experts from various disciplines and countries.
Download or read book Children s Mental Health written by Beth A. Stroul and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents along-overdue "road map" for providing affordable and comprehensive mental health services to children and youth of all races, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Incorporating the diverse perspectives of parents, policy makers, practitioners, administrators, and researchers, this groundbreaking work discusses... conceptual framework: a new paradigm for comprehensive, individualized, family-focused, and culturally competent mental health services for young children and adolescents; system development at federal, state, and local levels: the planning, financing, and structure of various government and community-based initiatives, including the Ventura County (CA), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Mental Health Services Program for Youth, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation systems of care; management issues: case management, human resource development, financing, service coordination mechanisms, and outcome assessment techniques; family involvement: a historical framework and practical guidelines for promoting family involvement and collaboration at the system and service delivery levels; and service delivery: new service delivery approaches for children and youth with serious challenges and multiple needs. Children's Mental Health provides articulate guidance and critical support for planning, administering, and implementing improved systems of mental health care for children. Policy makers, professionals, and parents will welcome the long-awaited insight and information that this volume delivers.
Download or read book Providing Mental Health Servies to Youth Where They Are written by Harinder S. Ghuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Necessary but Not Sufficient written by Gary Cameron and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential mental health placements remain an essential but controversial and costly part of the children's mental health service system.
Download or read book Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Sri Lanka written by Yasodha Maheshi Rohanachandra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Lanka is a lower middle-income country (LMIC) with a population of 4.6 million between 5 and 17 years-old. Poverty, terrorism and the effects of long-standing civil war have created a high mental health burden in the country. Similar to other LMICs, mental health is a neglected and an under-researched area in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has only 10 board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists in the country with 0.03 child and adolescent psychiatrists per 100 000 population. Due to the limited number of child and adolescent psychiatrists, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Sri Lanka has a diverse role including curative, health promotion, medico-legal, research and teaching responsibilities. This book gives an overview of the common psychosocial problems among children and adolescents in Sri Lanka and the nature of the child and adolescent mental health services available in the country at present, and elaborates the challenges faced by practitioners when providing mental health services to children and adolescents, with limited resources. The book also discusses practical solutions that can be taken to improve the child and adolescent mental health services in low-income settings, where scarcity of resources makes it impossible to adhere to ideal practice.
Download or read book Child Mental Health written by John Y Powell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use these system-of-care concepts to better serve children with serious emotional problems and their families!Providing services to children with emotional problems and their families continues to be a major challenge for social workers, family therapists, child mental health advocates, and psychologists in the new century. This valuable book addresses that challenge, detailing theory, principles, and application issues from the vantage points of both consumers and service providers. System-of-care values and practices were developed to address these concerns and meet the needs of these children and families, who tend to receive either no services at all or services that are far too restrictive, at a large cost to the organization providing the services.Child Mental Health: Exploring Systems of Care in the New Millennium identifies salient issues and offers suggestions for addressing the complexities of providing services for these troubled families. It also provides hope and encouragement for family members and professionals by identifying roles and practices that are effective in building collaborative community-based services.This book takes an incisive look at: the benefits and difficulties of partnering between practitioners and families the need for and benefits of partnering between practitioners of various disciplines within the system of care a working model of a wraparound process (the hallmark of the system of care) barriers that prevent effective wraparound services and what causes them the need to help social workers learn parent partnering skills the roles that families can play in the system of care the need for specialized training so that practitioners can learn to assess, understand, and integrate a family's spiritual beliefs into the system of care the development of an interdisciplinary, collaborative practice course at East Carolina University experiential training and shared-classroom experiences for students Child Mental Health: Exploring Systems of Care in the New Millennium is a tool that will aid practitioners and consumers alike as they shift their point of view from the provider-as-expert paradigm to one of building partnerships.
