Child and adolescent mental health services: strategy, planning, delivery, and evaluation

Editors:
WILLIAMS Richard, KERFOOT Michael, (eds.)
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication year:
2005
Pagination:
556p.
Place of publication:
Oxford

The mental health problems of children and adolescents are a major concern and a challenge to policymakers, service designers, planners, commissioners, and providers of services within health and social care. However a considerable amount of evidence has accumulated in the last 50 years about effectiveness and the factors that affect how best to deliver services. This book brings together this evidence in the following areas: the background developments in policymaking, strategic thinking, and adult education that impact on the future roles of professionals, managers, and child and adolescent health services; how to identify problem populations and devise effective methods for obtaining reliable and valid measures of need that will enable service planning to take place, and which will then promote the development of commissioning strategies that make sense to practitioners;  the evidence base for current interventions so that informed choices can be made, particularly in relation to expensive and residential provisions ; how to ensure that children and families are directed to services that are likely to have the optimal effect in relation to their identified needs; how services are currently being mapped and what recent experience tells us about the performance of state-funded services in the UK; what we know from international sources about how the impact of mental health problems on younger people translates into burden on parents, families, carers, and primary level staff; how their experiences relate to demand for and on specialist child and adolescent mental health services, and what the literature tells us about demand management; the developments that have occurred in services in the last 15 years and likely future directions.

Subject terms:
mental health problems, parents, planning, social care provision, young people, carers, child and adolescent mental health services, families, evaluation;
Content type:
research
Location(s):
United Kingdom
ISBN print:
0 19 850844 1

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