Positive Mental Health, Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency for Children and Adolescents

ISBN: 9780128043943 出版年：2016 页码：308 Hodes, Matthew Gau, Susan Shur-Fen Academic Press_RM

Positive Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency examines the main mechanisms involved in improving mental health in children and adolescents, including social and biological processes, as well as effective treatments. By taking into account diverse settings and cultures, the book combines academic, research, and clinical contributions and sets forth how it can be translated into effective clinical practice. In addition, the book promotes the study, treatment, care, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders and disabilities involving children, adolescents, and their families, and includes emerging knowledge on mental health problems and good practice in child and adolescent psychiatry as relayed by experts from around the world. Focuses on the empirical evidence base for work in child and adolescent mental healthAppraises the available evidence and underscores where it is lackingDemonstrates the implementation of research into practice Highlights the relevance of existing knowledge for clinical managementConsiders service and policy implications