Mental Health Assessment, Prevention, and Intervention: Promoting Child and Youth Well-Being

This book provides an integrated model of clinical reasoning across school, clinical, and counseling psychology to promote child and youth well-being. It offers theoretical, empirical, and practical frameworks and methods for addressing mental health needs and presents transformative, constructivist, multicultural, innovative, and evidence-based approaches for working with children and youth and their families. It is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, therapists, practitioners, and graduate students in clinical, counseling, and school psychology, social work, educational psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental psychology, and pediatrics.

Format: Hardback
Length: 439 pages
Publication date: 13 July 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This comprehensive book presents and integrates innovative approaches within the fields of school, clinical, and counseling psychology to conceptualize and approach mental health assessment, prevention, and intervention for the promotion of child and youth well-being. It offers a synthesized model of clinical reasoning that spans these disciplines, showcasing how decisions regarding assessment, prevention, and intervention are made in various situational contexts to ensure successful outcomes for children and youth. Furthermore, the volume explores theoretical, empirical, and practical frameworks and methods for addressing the mental health and well-being needs of children and adolescents within and across school, clinical, and counseling psychology disciplines.

Additionally, the book presents transformative, constructivist, multicultural, innovative, and evidence-based approaches for working with children and youth, as well as their families, in identifying mental health concerns, enhancing service system integration, promoting social justice and advocacy.

This book serves as a vital resource for researchers, clinicians, therapists, practitioners, and graduate students in clinical, counseling, and school psychology, social work, educational psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental psychology, pediatrics, and all interrelated disciplines. It provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on mental health assessment, prevention, and intervention, fostering a better understanding of the complex needs of children and adolescents and promoting effective strategies for their well-being.

Weight: 852g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030972073
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022