In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on improving our understanding of factors that contribute to the development of child and adolescent mental health problems. This is important in order to help efforts at prevention and to inform clinical practice. Working with Children and Adolescents reflects current worldwide knowledge about different types of risk and resilience factors for child psychopathology, ranging from the biological to the psychosocial. It provides expert views supported by empirical evidence and it addresses implications for clinical practice in different settings. Contributors to this volume present the most relevant and up-to-date topics within their subject. Each chapter provides useful clinical examples, appraises critically the evidence in relation to these examples, underlines areas where evidence is lacking and highlights the relevance of findings for psychopathology as seen in clinical practice. Authors comment on resilience factors here understood as both the absence of risk or as the presence of factors that have a protective psychological effect.

About the Author
Elena Garralda is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Imperial College, London. She trained in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London and worked at the University of Manchester before taking up her current position. She has research interests in the interface between physical and mental health in children and adolescents, the contribution of psychopathology to help seeking in primary care, outcome measurement of child and adolescent mental health services and psychotic symptoms in children. Martine Flament is professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa.

Reviews
The entire volume is a remarkable engaging, readable, and comprehensive compilation of selected topics of the recent advances in understanding risk and resilience factors in the field of child mental health. It is well written and well edited....a scholarly yet readable, interesting, and accessible summary of our current science and clinical expertise in the field of risk and resilience. -- February 2008 * Journal Of Clinical Psychiatry *



Book Information
ISBN 9780765704436
Author Elena Garralda
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
Publisher Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
Weight(grams) 458g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 185mm * 22mm