Promoting the Emotional Well Being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health

Kedar Nath Dwivedi is a Consultant in child, adolescent and family psychiatry in Northampton, Honorary Clinical Teacher in the University of Leicester and Honorary Director of the International Institute of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. He has edited Group Work with Children and Adolescents and Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children, both published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Peter Brinley Harper is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working in the Child Health Directorate of the Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. He is a member of the Board of Examiners of the Oxford Doctoral Training Course in Clinical Psychology and has lectured on the newly established MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at University College Northampton.

`Dwivedi (International Institute of Child and Adolescent Mental Health) and Harper (child psychology, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, UK) provide an overview of the key psychological processes affecting mental health and draw out implications for preventive measures and promotion of emotional well-being in children and adolescents. Contributors from a range of disciplines offer examples of projects and initiatives in the UK for preventing addiction and eating disorders, developing culturally sensitive services, and meeting the mental health needs of children in local authority care'.

• Foreword. Caroline Lindsey. 1. Introduction. Kedar Dwivedi, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Peter Harper, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. 2. The developmental perspective. Ezra Loh and Jillian Wragg, The Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust. 3. Attachment theory and mental health. Dawn Bailham, Clinical Psychologist and Peter Harper. 4. Emotion regulation and mental health. Kedar Dwivedi. 5. Attention and mental health. Rajeev Banhatti, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. 6. Addiction as a mark of adulthood: The enduring fascination of drugs and alcohol among adolescents. Allan Guggenbühl, Institute of Conflict Management and Mythodrama, Zürich. 7. Parenting. Annie Waldsax, Member of the Institute of Transactional Analysis. 8. Life skills education through schools. Judith Coley, Educational Consultant and Kedar Dwivedi. 9. Prevention of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents. Claire Hayes, National University of Ireland. 10. Prevention of eating disorders. Anne Stewart, Consultant Adolescent Psychiatrist. 11. Promotion of prosocial development and prevention of conduct disorders. Kedar Dwivedi and Sachin Sankar, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. 12. Prevention of mental health problems in socially excluded children and young people: a model for mental health service provision. Jane Callaghan, Research Associate, University of Leicester and Panos Vostanis, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Leicester. 13. Developing culturally sensitive services to meet the mental health needs of ethnic minority families. Peter Harper and Radha Dwivedi. 14. Ethnic minority children and families and mental health: preventative approaches. Philip Messent, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 15. The Mental Health Europe Projects and the Greek Perspective. G. Kolaitis and John Tsiantis, Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School. References. Index.