Mental health services for vulnerable children and young people supporting children who are, or have been, in foster care

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 effect...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tarren-Sweeney, Michael (-), Vetere, Arlene
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge 2014.
Series:Routledge advances in health and social policy
Routledge advances in health and social policy.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798412906719
Table of Contents:
  • Establishing the need for mental health services for children and young people in care, and those who are subsequently adopted / Michael Tarren-Sweeney and Arlene Vetere
  • The benefits of outpatient mental health services for children in long-term foster care / Jennifer Bellamy, Geetha Gopalan, and Dorian Traube
  • Our 21st century quest : locating effective mental health interventions for children and young people in care, and those adopted from care / Michael Tarren-Sweeney
  • Enhancing adoptive parenting : from a trial of effectiveness to translation / Alan Rushton
  • The "Spirit of New Orleans" : translating a model of intervention with maltreated children and their families for the Glasgow Context / Helen Minnis ... [et al.]
  • Social-emotional screening and intervention for 0-4 year-old children entering care / Carol Hardy and Elizabeth Murphy
  • Using an attachment narrative approach with families where the children are looked after or adopted / Rudi and Annie Dallos
  • Ten years later : the experience of a CAMHS service for children in care / Megan Chambers
  • Multi-agency and specialist working to meet the mental health needs of children in care and adopted / Kim Golding
  • Some reflections on the use of psychiatric diagnosis in the looked after or 'in care' child population / Margaret DeJong
  • The making and breaking of relationships : organizational and clinical questions in establishing a family life for looked after children / John Simmonds
  • Principles for the design of mental health services for children and young people in care, and those adopted from care / Michael Tarren-Sweeney.