Supporting the Mental Health of Children in Care (eBook, ePUB)

Evidence-Based Practice
Redaktion: Guishard-Pine, Jeune; Coleman-Oluwabusola, Gail; Mccall, Suzanne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.

Expert contributors highlight the challenges that children face and propose innovative models of practice which have been proven to improve outcomes. The book describes the difficulties children in care commonly encounter, such as vulnerability to self-harm, substance misuse or inappropriate sexual behaviour. It goes on to explore therapeutic interventions, such as art therapy or integrative therapy, which can be used to address the root of these behaviours. With a range of clinical and practical perspectives, it also makes recommendations for further training for foster carers, for reinforcing professional support networks and for all agencies to have a developed understanding of cultural considerations when working with children in care.

Those committed to improving the mental health of children and young people in care, such as psychologists, psychiatrists, CAMHS professionals and social workers, will find this book an invaluable source of evidence and inspiration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784501723
• Artikelnr.: 45970535

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Introduction. 1."I try hard not to scream": Responding to the
distress of children in care. Siobain Bonfield and Jeune Guishard-Pine,
Child and Family Psychologists. 2. Children under 5 in care: what a shame!
Christine Cork, Senior Primary Mental Health Worker. 3. "Working with
children in care who self-harm: Understanding coping, communication and
suicide". Sam Warner, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. 4. Drugs and
alcohol as a form of self-medication from trauma and past abuse amongst
children in care. Jeune Guishard-Pine, Child and Family Psychologist and
Lisa Robinson, Children and Young Peoples Drugs and Alcohol Centre Manager.
5. Run run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man":
Siblings in care and 'safe therapy'. Olatayo Afuape , Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapist. 6. Working with sexually inappropriate behaviour and
incest. Tonie Lawrence-Mahrra, CAMH Practitioner and Transpersonal
Therapist. 7. "Can I go home?" Art psychotherapy with foster children
returning to their birth family. Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Art
Psychotherapist. 8. The anarchy and the ecstasy: The therapeutic journey
for Children in Care. Jeune Guishard-Pine, Child and Family Psychologist
and Hannah Baron, Clinical Psychologist. 9. Professionalising Foster
Carers. Jeune Guishard-Pine, Devinia Malcolm and Sheri Mosuro, Psychology
Well-being Practitioners. 10. Therapeutic boundaries - or 'pass the
parcel'?: Ethical challenges and boundaries. Suzanne McCall, Clinical
Adolescent Counsellor. 11. The Illusion of individual psychotherapy for
LAC: Integrated working as a 'kaleidoscope. Jeune Guishard-Pine, Child and
Family Psychologist. 12. On becoming a mental health 'specialist' with
children in care: a polemic. Zoe Lander, Services for Children and Young
People. 13. Culturally-competent practice for children in care. Gail
Coleman-Oluwabusola, Consultant Clinical Psychologist. 14. 'Safe therapy':
Involving children in care in developing mental health services. Sidra
Aslam, Educational Psychologist. 15. Kith and Kin: Providing a therapeutic
space to kinship carers. Olatayo Afuape, Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapist. 16. Child sexual exploitation and multi-dimensional safety
for children in care. Lucie Shuker, International Centre for Social Science
Research, University of Bedfordshire. Conclusion. References. About the
contributors.