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Visiting rights
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, July 1999, p.9.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Summarises BASW's response to new draft guidance on visiting of parents by children under the Mental Health Act 1983.
Parent pressure
- Author:
- LAURENT Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 72(3), March 1999, pp.45-46.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
Reports on how unrealistic parental pressure to succeed and stay safe is creating a younger generation with a high incidence of mental ill-health problems.
Perspectives: doing the wrong thing
- Author:
- ALIBHAI-BROWN Yasmin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.3.99, 1999, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author laments a society that showers children with material goods, but fails to meet their emotional needs and continues to fail even the most vulnerable.
Children's mental health services: are they still a postcode lottery?
- Author:
- FLOOD Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Young Minds Magazine, 43, November 1999, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
Offers a summary of 'With Children in Mind', the Audit Commission's report of its two-year audit of specialist NHS child and adolescent mental health services in England and Wales.
Expanding a continuum of care: a report on a partial-day treatment program
- Authors:
- ROBINSON Kristin E., DOW Randal T., NICHOLAS Peter M.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Care Forum, 28(3), June 1999, pp.221-228.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Day treatment has been used to treat children with disruptive behavior disorders for over 20 years in the USA. This modality is increasingly appealing with the move toward providing children with the least-restrictive treatment. This article describes the design and implementation of an after-school partial-day treatment program for children referred to community mental health services for emotional and behavioral problems. Program evaluation is needed to determine whether these less intensive services can effective in treating referred children.
Fragile minds
- Author:
- DAVIES Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Foster Care, 97, May 1999, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Fostering Network
Increasingly, foster carers are looking after emotionally disturbed children and young people. The author talks to carers about their experiences.
The association of child psychotherapists: an organisation evolving over fifty years
- Authors:
- LUSH Dora, HURST Margaret, RADFORD Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 25(1), April 1999, pp.5-27.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Each of the authors present articles that describe the establishment and growth of the Association of Child Psychotherapists over the last fifty years, 1949-99.
Measuring children's mental health functioning: confirmatory factor analysis of a multidimensional measure
- Author:
- POTTER Cathryn C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research, 23(1), March 1999, pp.42-53.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
As mental health systems respond to policy definitions of serious emotional disturbance and the need to prioritise and evaluate mental health services, there is an increasing need for multidimensional measures of children's mental health functioning. Assesses the validity of the dimensional structure of the Colorado Client Assessment Record (CCAR) using a sample of child mental health service recipients.
The national CAMHS audit
- Author:
- SHAW Mel
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 4(1), March 1999, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
The Audit Commission is currently undertaking an audit of mental health services for children and adolescents. This article describes the objectives and methodology of the audit.
Children's needs - parenting capacity: the impact of parental mental illness, problem alcohol and drug use, and domestic violence on children's development
- Authors:
- CLEAVER Hedy, UNELL Ira, ALDGATE Jane
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 138p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the research literature relating to the effects parental mental health problems and or substance misuse, as well as domestic violence, have on child development. Shows that potential problems affect children differently depending on their age and individual circumstances. While some children grow up apparently unscathed, others exhibit emotional and behavioural disorders.