This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes. It addresses a broad range of aspects, including: the preventive programs and their systemic effects; the role of environment in influencing the healthy behaviors of adolescents and young adults; the use of e-Health technology in health and behavioral interventions for adolescents; and t…
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This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial chapters that include critical analysis, the book contains 19 chapters by 21 authors about the forming of the autistic community and neurodiversity movement, progress in their influence on the broader autism community and field, a…
IWK Children's Intensive Services (CIS) provides mental health services to children aged 5 to 12 years.
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 ambitious resource presents an inventive approach to integrating pediatric and mental health care based in comprehensive, family-centered service delivery. Its framework adds a problem-solving focus to the core principles of pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, emphasizing young patients' developmental, family, and social context. An international panel of expert clinicians explores the value of the mental health component in treating complex and chronic cases across varied settings,…
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…
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 …
Guidelines on safety, privacy/respect, therapeutic programming, meals, visiting, and roles of the specialists working on the unit.