Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: A Responsive Approach to Communities

Editor : Taiwo Afuape, Editor : Inga-Britt Krause

Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: A Responsive Approach to Communities

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2016
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 264
  • Category :
    Child and Adolescent Studies
  • Catalogue No : 38795
  • ISBN 13 : 9780415706490
  • ISBN 10 : 0415706491
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Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services weaves together different strands of mental health work undertaken in one inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by professionals working in a range of ways. In particular, it provides examples of how an urban CAMH service has been responsive to, and influenced by, local circumstances, resources and knowledge. The book explores the relationship between professionals and the community context, which provides the background to the lives of individual service users and the families they serve, and how this relationship is integral to the development of a responsive service.

The chapters cover a range of settings and approaches, addressing the social, cultural, political and community contexts impacting on children, young people and families. In this way Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services explores challenges and issues emerging in a responsive approach to child and family work in all community settings whether they be urban, suburban or rural.

Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services is intended for mental health and social care professionals involved in therapeutic, social and pastoral work with children, young people, families and communities. The book will be of interest to policy-makers, mental health and social care professionals, health visitors, general practitioners, nurses and midwives , as well as to trainees in these professions including trainee clinical psychologists, social workers or psychoanalytic and systemic psychotherapists. It will also appeal to those interested in responsive communities and critical approaches to therapeutic interventions in mental health work, psychology, psychotherapy and counselling.

About the Editor(s)

Taiwo Afuape is a Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist who has worked, with transitional populations; torture survivors in a Human Rights charity and adults in a mental health Systemic Service. Currently she works for CNWL in adult mental health and for the Tavistock as Lead of Refugee team (CAMHS).

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Inga-Britt Krause, PhD, is a social and medical anthropologist. As a systemic psychotherapist she has worked for nearly twenty years in the NHS and has helped set up Specialist Services for Asian Communities in London. She is currently Training & Development Consultant in the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

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