Mental Health and Growing Up: Factsheets for parents, teachers and young people (4th edn)
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Does your
child throw embarrassing temper tantrums in
public?
Are you worried about
your best friend who has become preoccupied with food, yet skips
meals?
Is there a child in
your class who seems to have no concentration and is always causing
trouble?
These factsheets may be able to help. These short, simply
written and easily understandable information sheets offer parents,
teachers and young people practical and up-to-date information on
what you can do if you are worried about your child, a pupil or a
friend.
There are 46 different factsheets covering a wide range of
emotional, behavioural and mental health problems that often affect
children and young people. Each factsheet explains what the problem
might be, the possible causes and effects, gives tips to help you
deal with it, outlines the treatments available, gives the best
available evidence, and shows how and where to get help and further
information. Many include real-life case studies.
- Each factsheet can be photocopied (free of charge) for use as
handouts for patients, young people, pupils, parents or
friends.
- Completely revised and expanded edition.
Readership:
- Primary healthcare profressionals (General Practictioners,
practice nurses, community nurses, etc.) or members of the mental
health team.
- Any professional working with children and young people
(teachers, school nurses, social workers, etc.).
- Parents, anyone caring for a child or young person and young
people themselves.
Praise for the 3rd edition:
"Much of the
advice is extremely useful as a first point of reference for
parents and professionals, particularly with regard to difficulties
which may fall outside the teacher or parent's experience."
- Special (Journal of the National Association for Special
Educational Needs)
Contents
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Factsheets for young
people
1. Bipolar disorder
2. Cannabis and mental health
3. Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT)
4. Coping with stress
5. Depression
6. Drugs and alcohol
7. Exercise and mental health
8. Mental illness in a parent
9. Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD)
10. Psychosis
11. Schizophrenia
12. When bad things happen – overcoming adversity and
developing
resilience
13. Worries about weight and eating problems
14. Worries and anxieties
15. Who's who in child and adolescent mental health services
(CAMHS)
Factsheets for parents,
carers and anyone who works with young people
1. Good parenting
2. The restless and excitable child
3. Dealing with tantrums
4. Children who soil or wet themselves
5. Sleep problems in childhood and adolescence
6. Behavioural problems and conduct disorder
7. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
8. The child with general learning disability
9. Specific learning difficulties
10. Autism and Asperger syndrome
11. Depression in children
12. Worries and anxieties: helping children to cope
13. Divorce or separation of parents: the impact on children
and
adolescents
14. Death in the family: helping children to cope
15. The emotional cost of bullying
16. Traumatic stress in children
17. Domestic violence: its effects on children
18. Child abuse and neglect: the emotional effect
19. Drugs and alcohol: what parents need to know
20. Self-harm in young people
21. Psychosis
22. Schizophrenia
23. Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents
24. Obsessive–compulsive disorder in children and young
people
25. Eating disorders in young people
26. Chronic physical illness: the effects on mental health
27. Medically unexplained physical symptoms
28. Chronic fatigue syndrome: helping your child get better
29. Parental mental illness: the problems for children
30. Who’s who in CAMHS
31. Surviving adolescence
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The full
text of each factsheet is available to read online free of
charge (within the health advice section of the College
website).
Printed versions of the factsheets
(easier to photocopy) can only be bought as part of the whole
pack.
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