Developing Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: A Toolkit for Clinicians
Edited by Sarah Bernard and Jeremy Turk
There is an ever-increasing obligation on child and adolescent
mental health services to meet the needs of children and young
people with learning disabilities. This practical and concise book
will help clinicians, service managers and commissioners to rapidly
develop the necessary skills and knowledge in this expanding area
of clinical practice. It provides a comprehensive overview of
epidemiology, mental health disorders and their clinical
presentations, multidisciplinary assessment and intervention, and
multi-agency working. It reviews the specific roles of different
medical practitioners, such as clinical psychologists and
occupational therapists. Plus there are sections on working in
partnership with families, and service tiers and models.
Readership:
Mental health professionals and especially
service managers and commissioners of child and adolescent mental
health services.
Download the whole book
About the editors:
Sarah Bernard is consultant
psychiatrist for children and adolescents with learning disability
at the Michael Rutter Centre, South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust.
Jeremy Turk is Professor of
Developmental Psychiatry at St. George’s, University of London, and
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist in the South West
London & St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust where he is
Clinical Team Leader on the Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Learning Disability Service.
Quote from the editors:
"Our vision is to equip child and adolescent mental health
clinicians and managers to enable them to make their services as
accessible, appropriate and useful as possible for children and
young people with learning disabilties and their families."
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Epidemiological overview
2. Multidisciplinary mental health
assessment
3. Clinical psychology
4. Speech and language therapy
5. Occupational therapy
6. Nursing
7. The social work contribution
8. Medical
9. Multi-agency working
10. Working in partnership with families
11. Service tiers and models