This book addresses the assessessment of parents and children of struggling families where there are issues of neglect or harm, and separating parents are contesting arrangements for their children’s care.
This book discusses reducing the incidence of mental ill health and draws on research on the development and persistence of behavioural problems in ch..
Managing Fear: The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment examines the growing use of forensic risk assessment as it relates to pr..
This book identifies aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children’s development, as well as the efforts of professiona..
With this text, the authors intend to offer a practical guide that demonstrates how this partnering can be strategically implemented in all levels of ..
Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis takes a bold look at what reforms are needed in healthcare and provides specific recommendations. When ..
This book, written for mental health professionals, presents a fresh new alternative to patient-centred care in the form of patient-perspective care –..
This introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues which they should find of great help in t..
This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborat..
Originally published in 1987, this book reviews the state of evaluative research of mental health programmes at the time, showing how practices can be..
Originally published in 1987, this book reviews the state of evaluative research of mental health programmes at the time, showing how practices can be..
Foundations of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry documents the development of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry from its inception to the present, and dra..
More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, whil..