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.
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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