From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Jean-Philippe Raynaud, Matthew Hodes, Susan Shur-Fen Gau

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2014
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216297789
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health has been shaped to reflect the mental health needs of children and adolescents in low and middle income countries of the world. It also includes chapters on topics based on research and practice in high income countries which may have lessons and implications universally. The first section of the book takes a child and adolescent mental health services perspective encompassing epidemiology, mental health needs, and selected policy issues. The second section provides summaries of research findings into the mechanisms for problems frequently encountered in child and adolescent psychiatric practice: schizophrenia, mood disorders, and sleep problems. The third and last section is about interventions and practice. It describes the treatment gap between low and middle income countries in relation to child and adolescent mental health and shows how professionals or lay people may be trained to effectively deliver interventions.

This monograph has been produced for the 21st congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) to be held in Durban, South Africa, in 2014. This is the first congress of IACAPAP in Africa, and it takes place at an appropriate time in view of the continent's burgeoning child population, significant economic growth and wish to improve the populations' health.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Tables, Figures, and Text Boxes
• Editorial Introduction
• PART I. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PERSPECTIVES AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
• Chapter 1. Mental Health and the Global Agenda
• Chapter 2. Epidemiology of Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Background and U.S. Studies
• PART II. PROBLEMS AND DISORDERS
• Chapter 3. Findings and Concepts from Children at Genetic Risk That May Transform Prevention Research and Practice in Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders
• Chapter 4. Sleep Schedule, Patterns, and Problems of Children and Adolescents Seen in Child Mental Health Practice
• PART III. INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICE
• Chapter 5. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Role of Task Shifting
• Chapter 6. What Works Where? A Systematic Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Interventions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
• Chapter 7. Addressing the Consequences of Violence and Adversity: The Development of a Group Mental Health Intervention for War-Affected Youth in Sierra Leone
• Chapter 8. Present Status of ASD from Childhood to Adulthood and an Intervention Initiative for Adults with ASD in Japan
• Chapter 9. Why Should Cultural Factors Be Taken into Account in Child and Adolescent Development and Mental Health Care?
• Chapter 10. Digital Horizons Using Information Technology-Based Interventions in Preventing and Managing Mental Health Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
• Index
• About the Contributors