Young people

Readable and well-researched information for the public.

The Young Mind: an essential guide for parents, teachers and young adults.  Order your discount copy from us - 20% off

Leaflets

• Reading Lights” Comic books for 4-7 year olds and their teachers and parents: 4 colour books that address what it is like to be different, and provide a framework for parents, social workers & teachers to support children

• When bad things happen
• Child and adolescent psychiatrists: how they can help
• Coping with stress
• Psychosis
• Depression
• Worries about weight
• Drugs and alcohol
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Cannabis and mental health
• Exercise and mental health
• Problem gambling 

• HEADstuff : illustrated leaflet challenging young people's attitudes towards mental illness

• The restless and excitable young child
• Good parenting
• Dealing with tantrums
• Behavioural problems and conduct disorder
• ADHD and hyperkinetic disorder
• Stimulant medication for hyperkinetic disorder and ADHD
• Sleep problems in childhood and adolescence
• Children who soil or wet themselves
• The child with general learning disability
• Specific learning difficulties
• Understanding autism and Asperger's syndrome
• Worries and anxieties - helping children to cope
• Divorce or separation of parents - the impact on children and adolescents
• Death in the family - helping children to cope
• Parental mental illness - the problems for children
• Domestic violence - its effects on children
• The emotional cost of bullying
• Child abuse and neglect - the emotional effects
• Traumatic stress in children - how parents can help
• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar affective disorder (manic depression)
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Eating disorders in young people
• Suicide and attempted suicide
• Deliberate self-harm in young people
• Chronic physical illnesses: the effects on mental health
• Medically unexplained physical symptoms
• Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): helping your child to get better
• Alcohol and drugs: what parents need to know
• Information about drugs: what parents need to know
• Child and adolescent psychiatrists: how they can help
  

• CD-ROM
  Changing minds: Mental Health: what it is, what to do and where to go: CD-ROM about mental health, for young people. For use by teachers as part of the PSHE curriculum (key stages 3 & 4).

links to other organisations that might be able to help

Books

• Books for Teenagers and Adults
• Books for Younger Children (Pre-school to 12 years)
• Other Resources for Adolescents
• Self-Help Books for Parents and Adults

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - An Operational Handbook
• Child psychiatry and child protection litigation
• Child Psychiatry and the Law - 3rd Edition
• Finding the evidence: A gateway to the literature in child and adolescent mental health - Second edition
• Child and adolescent psychiatry - A list of Gaskell publications by speciality
• Gender Identity Disorders in Children and Adolescents
• Guidance for the Use of Video Recording in Child Psychiatric Practice
• Communicating with Vulnerable Children: a guide for practitioners
• Managing Deliberate Self Harm in Young People
• Research and Innovation on the Road to Modern Child Psychiatry Volume 1
• Research and Innovation on the Road to Modern Child Psychiatry Volume 2
• Safeguards for Young Minds Young people and protective legislation
• The Mental Health Needs of Looked After Children
• Unwillingly to School - Offers practical help to those who are faced with helping children who fail to attend school.

Audiotapes

• Coping with Sleep Problems in Children : audio-cassette for parents or carers who have problems getting their child to go to sleep

• About our leaflets
• A career for school leavers - Psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty