Social inequality and social disadvantage provide an all too
fertile soil that sustains the majority of the serious mental
health problems suffered by children in our society.
The complexity of the issues clinicians routinely encounter in
working with children with mental health problems is widely
acknowledged. However, few books concern themselves with how such
difficult populations can be effectively approached and the
strategies that are likely to deliver effective treatment to them.
This book, based on a highly successful seminar for grant-giving
children’s charities held at the Anna Freud Centre and sponsored by
John Lyon’s Charity, provides pragmatic solutions to this major
therapeutic challenge of our age. The chapters bridge statutory and
voluntary initiatives and are held firmly together by the
commitment to evidence-based, systematically offered, programmatic
and innovative approaches that can help those who, although hard to
reach, are in greatest need of our efforts: the socially excluded
children and families in our society. As such, this book will be
invaluable to psychologists, psychotherapists, counselors and
family therapists.
İçerik tablosu
About the Editors.
List of Contributors.
Foreword by Professor Michael Edwards.
Part I: Policy and Research Background to Working with the
Hard to Reach.
1 The early social and emotional determinants of inequalities in
health. (Peter Fonagy and Anna Higgitt).
2 What evidence for evidence-based prevention? (Peter
Fonagy).
3 Overview of child and adolescent mental health policy and
service provision in England: Attempts to reach the hard to reach.
(Miranda Wolpert, Paula Lavis, Richard Wistow and Bob
Foster).
Part II: Specific Intervention Programmes Working with the
Hard to Reach.
4 A study of multisystemic therapy: A new type of help in the UK
for young people in trouble with the law. (Geoffrey Baruch and
Jacqueline Cannon).
5 Barefoot practitioners: A proposal for a manualized,
home-based, adolescent crisis intervention project. (Eia Asen
and Dickon Bevington).
6 Developing an enhanced care model for depression using primary
care mental health workers: Implications for the care and
management of young men with depression. (Stephen Pilling, Judy
Leibowitz, John Cape, Jemma Simmons, Pamela Jacobsen and
Irwin Nazareth).
7 The hard to reach and the Place2Be. (Peter Wilson and
Benita Refson).
Epilogue by David Robins.
Bibliography.
Index.
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Geoffrey Baruch is Director of the Brandon Centre for
Counseling and Psychotherapy for Young People (the Brandon Centre)
in Kentish Town, London. He is a member of the British
Psychoanalytical Society, and is Qualified in the Treatment of
adults and as a child psychoanalyst. He is the lead investigator
for the first randomized controlled trial of multisystemic therapy
in the UK. Between 2001 and 2003 he was a senior policy adviser to
the child and adolescent mental health team, Department of Health,
contributing to the National Service Framework for Children, Young
People and Maternity Services.
Peter Fonagy, Ph D, FBA is Freud Memorial Professor of
Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical
Health Psychology at University College London. He is also Chief
Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London, and is a Consultant for
the Child and Family Program at the Menninger Department of
Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine. He is a clinical
psychologist, and both a training and supervising analyst in child
and adult analysis for the British Psychoanalytical Society. He
holds a number of important positions, which include co-chairing
the research committee of the International Psychoanalytic
Association, and Fellowship of the British Academy. He has
published over 300 chapters and articles and has authored or edited
several books.
David Robins, MPhil is the Director of Grand Giving at
John Lyon’s Charity, and the author of a number of studies of
disaffected and marginalized young people including Tarnished
Vision: Crime and Conflict in the Inner City (OUP 1992).