Youth at AIS participate in individual, group, and family therapy.
This volume presents a comprehensive and practical approach to the treatment of suicide and NSSI for adolescents utilizing a mentalizing framework. The beginning of the text provides up-to-date information on the theory of a mentalizing therapy in order to ground the readers in the neuroscientific underpinnings of a mentalizing approach. Next chapters provide information on the fundamental building blocks of a mentalizing therapy at the individual and family level. These chapters provide step-b…
Description of Child and Adolescent Mental Health program's anxiety treatment groups; recommended books.
Information on treatments, services and staff at the Nova Scotia Youth Facility.
What are coping skills? Coping skills are strategies or activities that we use to help us manage challenging emotions, situations, or other upsetting things that we deal with in life. This booklet provides information to youth on how to build coping skills.
What are coping skills? Coping skills are strategies or activities that we use to help us manage challenging emotions, situations, or other upsetting things that we deal with in life. This booklet provides information to youth on how to build coping skills.
This book contains practical, clinical information for responding to the increasing unmet mental health needs of pediatric populations. Edited by mental health experts with hands-on experience working in primary care, this book describes the most common pediatric psychiatric concerns that are most appropriately treated by PCPs and integrated care teams and it is written specifically for such providers. It also provides clinical pearls for diagnosis, behavioral interventions, and pharmacologic i…
This concise and practical book provides an overview of how to safely and effectively transition adolescents with mental health conditions into a college environment. Therapeutic strategies to assess and promote readiness for transition to college are discussed in case-based chapters, which include case history, analysis of transition, clinical pearls, literature review, and helpful resources for clinicians, patients, and families. Filling a significant gap in the literature, this resource deli…
Study Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a question-and-answer companion that allows you to evaluate your mastery of the subject matter as you progress through Dulcan’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Second Edition. The Study Guide is made up of approximately 270 questions divided into 49 individual quizzes of 5–8 questions each that correspond to chapters in the textbook. Questions are followed by an answer guide that references relevant text (including page numbers) in …