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Kedar Nath Dwivedi, Peter Harper - Promoting the Emotional Well Being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2004

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

A Handbook

Av Kedar Nath Dwivedi, Peter Harper

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This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention, and draws out the implications for preventive measures and promotion of emotional well-being. The authors, from a range of professional disciplines, emphasise the importance of early intervention and prevention, exploring in particular how initiatives in parenting and education can promote children's emotional well-being. The topics they cover include:* the prevention and management of addiction and eating disorders* the development of culturally sensitive services for ethnic minority children and families* the impact of parenting programmes and the life skills education programmes in schools* ways of meeting the mental health needs of children who are socially excluded, homeless or in local authority care.Providing examples of a broad range of projects and initiatives in Britain and other European countries, this handbook will be an invaluable resource for all professionals working in child and adolescent mental health.
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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.

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`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'.

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