This helpful handbook is an easy to use guide on general issues around child and adolescent mental health, and is a must-read for frontline professionals. The book is set out in sections, which cover definitions; development and influences on mental health; specific problems; medical and legal issues; treatment; and management strategies that can be used by professionals in primary care settings.
Covering early years to adolescence, the authors set out ways in which children and young people can be supported by all practitioners in primary care. These are outlined in detail and there is clarification on when referral to specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) might be appropriate. Despite setting out the interventions that may be applied, there is a lack of clarity around the skills required to carry some of them out.
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