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Helping children who are anxious or obsessional: a guidebook
- Author:
- SUNDERLAND Margot
- Publisher:
- Speechmark
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 63p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Milton Keynes
This is one of a series of nine illustrated books and companion guidebooks that use story telling as a therapeutic tool to help young children who have troubled lives think about and connect with their feelings. In this story, Willy is an anxious boy who experiences the world as a very unsafe, wobbly place. Jo next door is too ordered and tidy to be able to enjoy life. Willy longs for order while Jo wants things to wobble. They visit the puddle people who help them to break out of their fixed patterns and find richer ways of living. The guidebook describes the common psychological origins and most relevant psychotherapeutic theories for the problems addressed. It looks at what it is like to feel wobbly on the inside and why some children feel this way. It also considers why Jo longs for wobbles and mess. The author aims to heighten awareness and help adults not to come at the problem with a closed view or to project their own feelings onto the child. Included are enacted stories and statements made by children, photocopiable exercises designed to help children think about, express and digest the issues, and further suggested reading. The pack is intended for parents, teachers and anyone looking after or who may encounter troubled children.
Prevalence of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the British nationwide survey of child mental health
- Authors:
- HEYMAN Isobel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 179, October 2001, pp.324-329.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a disorder that appears to be underdiagnosed and under treated, despite the evidence for effective treatments. There are variable estimates of OCD prevalence in the under-16s and published rates give little indication of age trends. This study aims to establish the prevalence and associates of OCD in young people aged 5-15 years. Its uses a nationwide (UK) epidemiological study of rates of psychiatric disorder in 5- to 15-year-olds. Concludes that although OCD is rare in young children, the rate increases towards the adult rates at puberty. Children with OCD have additional psychosocial disadvantage. The majority of the childhood cases identified in this survey appear to have been undetected and untreated.
Handbook of serious emotional disturbance in children and adolescents
- Editors:
- MARSH Diane, FRISTAD Mary
- Publisher:
- John Wiley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 509p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- New York
The book presents current theory, research, practice, and policy concerning serious emotional disturbance (SED) and highlights opportunities for practitioners to serve this large and vulnerable population. As many as one in five children has a diagnosable mental disorder, yet many go undiagnosed and receive little or no treatment for their problems, which can worsen with age. The book underscores the need for competence in children’s mental health services, and includes the voices of adolescents and college students with early-onset mental disorders. Specific SED disorders and their evidence-based treatments are explored, including autism, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, ADHD, psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suicidal behaviour. Topics examined include systems of care, where home-based treatment is addressed, as well as collaborative models for working with families that have a child diagnosed with SED. Also included are discussions of school-based intensive mental health treatment and the role of the primary health care system in SED, as well as empirically supported family- and community-based interventions contributed by researchers and clinicians in the field.