Creating Change for Complex Children and their Families
eBook - ePub

Creating Change for Complex Children and their Families

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multi-Family Work

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Creating Change for Complex Children and their Families

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multi-Family Work

About this book

The strain of caring for children struggling with severe and complex mental health needs affects the entire family. The staff at the innovative Croft Child and Family Unit have developed a unique approach of working intensively with the whole family, and encouraging them to share their experiences with other families, to instigate a complete change that will benefit all family members.

Using detailed case studies to illustrate the model, the book focuses on the needs of children with a wide range of developmental, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and explores the complicated interactions between these children, their families and their communities. The care team includes nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, family therapists and creative therapists, social workers and teachers. They examine how to integrate a range of therapeutic interventions and how to use the powerful relationships that develop between professionals and families to enable positive, lasting changes.

This book will be indispensable reading for trainees and professionals working with children with mental health problems and their families, and special needs educationalists wanting to understand the benefits of an intensive, multi-family approach to treatment for children who do not respond to standard community interventions.

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Yes, you can access Creating Change for Complex Children and their Families by Marion Polichroniadis, Jo Holmes, Amelia Oldfield in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Psychiatry & Mental Health. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Prologue
  7. Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
  8. Chapter 2 Therapeutic Engagement
  9. Chapter 3 Structure and Containment
  10. Chapter 4 A Nurturing Environment
  11. Chapter 5 Multi-Family Work
  12. Chapter 6 Accessing Learning
  13. Chapter 7 Fostering the Child’s Social World
  14. Chapter 8 Understanding the Individual
  15. Chapter 9 Understanding the Family
  16. Chapter 10 Creating a New Story
  17. Chapter 11 Reflection and Evolution
  18. Appendix 1: Croft Rules
  19. Appendix 2: Weekly Task
  20. Appendix 3: Care Plan for Managing Difficult Behaviour
  21. Appendix 4: Children’s Pictorial Timetable
  22. Appendix 5: Parent Timetable
  23. Appendix 6: Assessment of Activities of Daily Living
  24. Appendix 7: Croft Key Worker Book
  25. Appendix 8: Global Assessment Care Plan
  26. Appendix 9: Scoring of Music Therapy Diagnostic Assessment
  27. References