Working with Children and Adolescents An Evidence-Based Approach to Risk and Resilience

by Garralda, Elena; Flament, Martine; Caffo, Ernesto; el Din, Amira Seif; Forresi, Barbara; Goodyear, Ian M.; Hebebrand, Johannes; Hinney, Anke; Lievers, Luisa Strik; O'Connor, Thomas; Punamaki, Raija-Leena; Reichwald, Kathrin; von Schimmelmann, Benno Graf;

• ISBN13: 9780765704436
• ISBN10: 0765704439
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-27
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on improving our understanding of factors that contribute to the development of child and adolescent mental health problems. This is important in order to help efforts at prevention and to inform clinical practice. Working with Children and Adolescents reflects current worldwide knowledge about different types of risk and resilience factors for child psychopathology, ranging from the biological to the psychosocial. It provides expert views supported by empirical evidence and it addresses implications for clinical practice in different settings. Contributors to this volume present the most relevant and up-to-date topics within their subject. Each chapter provides useful clinical examples, appraises critically the evidence in relation to these examples, underlines areas where evidence is lacking and highlights the relevance of findings for psychopathology as seen in clinical practice. Authors comment on resilience factors here understood as both the absence of risk or as the presence of factors that have a protective psychological effect.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Myron Belfer
Editorial Introduction	ix
M. Elena Garralda
1 Identifying Genes Underlying Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders	1	(44)
Johannes Hebebrand, Kathrin Reichwald, Benno Graf Schimmelmann, and Anke Hinney
2 The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis: Cortisol, DHEA, and Psychopathology	45	(22)
Ian M. Goodyer
3 Promoting Children's Adjustment: Parenting Research from the Perspective of Risk and Protection	67	(28)
Thomas G. O'Connor and Stephen B.C. Scott
4 Child Abuse and Neglect: A Mental Health Perspective	95	(34)
Ernesto Caffo, Luisa Strik Lievers, and Barbara Forresi
5 Resiliency in Conditions of War and Military Violence: Preconditions and Developmental Processes	129	(50)
Raija-Leena Punamäki
6 School Influences on Child and Adolescent Mental Health	179	(22)
Amira Seif el Din
Index	201	(6)
About the Editors and Contributors	207