Promoting The Emotional Well-being Of Children And Adolescents And Preventing Their Mental Ill Health: A Handbook

288 Pages·2004·0.97 MB·English

by  Caroline Lindsey

Promoting the Emotional Well-being
of Children and Adolescents and Preventing
Their Mental Ill Health
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Promoting the Emotional Well-being
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Preventing Their Mental Ill Health
A Handbook
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Contents
Foreword 9
CarolineLindsey,Co-Chair,CAMHSmodule,Children’s
NationalServiceFramework
Preface 11
Acknowledgements 13
1. Introduction 15
KedarNathDwivedi,ConsultantChildandAdolescentPsychiatrist,
NorthamptonandPeterBrinleyHarper,
ConsultantCinicalPsychologist,Northampton
2. Developmental Perspective 29
EzraLohandJillianWragg,Birmingham
Children’sHospitalNHSTrust
3. Attachment Theory and Mental Health 49
DawnBailham,ClinicalPsychologist,Northampton,
andPeterBrinleyHarper
4. Emotion Regulation and Mental Health 69
KedarNathDwivedi
5. Attention and Mental Health 85
RajeevBanhatti,ConsultantChild
andAdolescentPsychiatrist,Northampton
6. Addiction as a Mark of Adulthood: The enduring
fascination of drugs and alcohol among adolescents 101
AllanGuggenbühl,InstituteforConflictManagement
andMythodrama,Zurich
7. Parenting 113
AnnieWaldsax,SeniorChildMentalHealthWorker,Northampton
8. Life Skills Education through Schools 132
JudithColey,EducationalConsultant,
andKedarNathDwivedi
9. Prevention of Depression
and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents 149
ClaireHayes,NationalUniversityof Ireland
10. Prevention of Eating Disorders 173
AnneStewart,ConsultantAdolescentPsychiatrist,Oxford
11. Promotion of Prosocial Development
and Prevention of Conduct Disorders 198
KedarNathDwivediandSachinSankar,ConsultantChild
andAdolescentPsychiatrist,Northampton
12. Prevention of Mental Health Problems
in Socially Excluded Children and Young People:
A model for mental health service provision 219
JaneCallaghan,LecturerinPsychology,UniversityCollegeNorthampton,
andPanosVostanis,Professorof ChildandAdolescentPsychiatry,
Universityof Leicester
13. Developing Culturally Sensitive Services to meet the Men-
tal Health Needs of Ethnic Minority Children 234
PeterBrinleyHarperandRadhaDwivedi,formerOutreachWorker
forEthnicMinorities,ChildandFamilyServices,Northampton
14. Ethnic Minority Children and Families
and Mental Health: Preventive approaches 255
PhilipMessent,ChildandAdolescentMentalHealthService,
LondonBoroughof TowerHamlets
15. The Mental Health Europe
Projects and the Greek Perspective 267
G.Kolaitis,andJohnTsiantis,
Departmentof ChildPsychiatry,AthensUniversityMedicalSchool
TheContributors 278
SubjectIndex 281
AuthorIndex 286
Foreword
Thisbookmakesacontributiontothefieldofchildandadolescentmen-
tal health in a timely and thought-provoking way. It brings together a
widespectrumofthinkingandpracticeinthefieldofmentalhealthpro-
motionandpreventioninareadilyaccessibleway.Itisanexcitingerafor
professionalswhoareseekingtocontributetotheemotionalwell-being
ofchildrenandyoungpeopleintheUK.Inallfourcountries,thereisa
growing recognition of the importance of good mental health for the
overallhealthandsuccessof individualswithintheircommunitiesand
for the achievement of a thriving society.
The need for a significant increase in child mental health services
has not until recently been reflected in policies for investment in re-
sources,trainingandworkforce.However,therearenowsignsthatthe
need for this is being taken seriously at last. Both in England and in
Wales, there is a commitment to the development and publication of a
Children’sNationalServiceFramework,basedonexpertadvice,which
will set standards for the delivery of health and social care services to
children, young people and their families.
The fundamental principle which is being proposed is that
‘children’smentalhealthiseveryone’sbusiness’.Bythisitismeantthat
all professionals who come into contact with children in their
day-to-day work should be capable of taking action to promote their
emotional well-being and to prevent mental ill health. This means un-
derstandinghowtocommunicatewithchildren,recognisingthesignifi-
canceofwhattheyaresayingandknowinghowtointerveneortorefer
on to appropriate services. It also entails whole school preventive and
early intervention programmes being put in place with support from
specialistservices,andorganisingprimaryhealthcareservicestointer-
veneearlywithmothersantenatallyandpostnatally,toanticipatetheir
mental health needs and to offer parent training to promote good
parenting.
Makingchildren’smentalhealththeconcernofallprofessionalswill
potentiallyincludethosewhoareworkinginuniversalandprimarycare
services,inhealthcare,socialservices,earlyyears,schoolandfurthered-
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ucation, youth offending and police, leisure and play services and the
whole range of voluntary organisations.
Ofcourse,thisproposalhasenormoustrainingandeducationalim-
plications, starting with the curriculum for children and young people
themselves,andwiththeirparents,carersandteachers.Specialistchild
mental health services are never going to be in a position to meet the
mental health needs of a population in which one in five children has
mentalhealthdifficultiesand10percenthavediagnosablechildpsychi-
atricdisorders.Theimplicationsareclear–societymuststrivetocreate
environmentsinwhichthewaysthatchildrenarebroughtupandedu-
cated take account of our evidence-based knowledge of the optimal
ways to do so.
This book will help those interested in this work to consider how
they might themselves contribute to this important field.
CarolineLindsey
Co-Chair,CAMHSmodule,Children’sNationalServiceFramework