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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 disorders. This book outlines how services can effectively detect, prevent, and treat their mental health difficulties.
List of contents
Foreword
Lord Listowel Part 1: Overview Chapter 1. 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 Chapter 2. The Benefits of Outpatient Mental Health Services for Children in Long-Term Foster Care
Jennifer Bellamy, Geetha Gopalan, and Dorian Traube Chapter 3. Our 21st Century Quest - Locating Effective Mental Health Interventions for Children and Young People in Care, and Those Adopted From Care
Michael Tarren-Sweeney Part 2: Recent Innovations in Mental Health Service Delivery Chapter 4. Enhancing Adoptive Parenting: From a Trial of Effectiveness to Translation
Alan Rushton Chapter 5. The "Spirit of New Orleans": Translating a Model of Intervention with Maltreated Children and Their Families for the Glasgow Context
Helen Minnis, Graham Bryce, Louise Phin and Phil Wilson Chapter 6. Social-emotional Screening and Intervention for 0-4 Year-Old Children Entering Care
Carol Hardy and Elizabeth Murphy Chapter 7. Using an Attachment Narrative Approach with Families Where the Children are Looked After or Adopted
Rudi and Annie Dallos Part 3: Designing Specialised Mental Health Services for Children in Care, and Those Adopted From Care Chapter 8. Ten Years Later: The Experience of a CAMHS Service for Children in Care
Megan Chambers Chapter 9. Multi-Agency and Specialist Working to Meet the Mental Health Needs of Children in Care and Adopted
Kim Golding Chapter 10. Some Reflections on the Use of Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Looked After or 'In Care' Child Population
Margaret DeJong Chapter 11. The Making and Breaking of Relationships: Organizational and Clinical Questions in Establishing a Family Life for Looked After Children?
John Simmonds Chapter 12. Principles for the Design of Mental Health Services for Children and Young People in Care, and Those Adopted from Care
Michael Tarren-Sweeney
About the author
Michael Tarren-Sweeney is a Clinical Psychologist, Epidemiologist and Child Developmental Theorist. He is Associate Professor of Child and Family Psychology at Canterbury University in New Zealand (where he teaches postgraduate psychology trainees through to board registration), as well as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist for government and charitable children's agencies in Australia.
Arlene Vetere is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Deputy Director of the PsychD in clinical psychology at Surrey University, UK. She is Professor of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice at Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo, Norway. She is a UKCP Registered Systemic Psychotherapist and HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologist.
Summary
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 disorders. This book outlines how services can effectively detect, prevent, and treat their mental health difficulties.
