Working with Child and Adolescent Mental Health: The Central Role of Language and Communication

In children, mental health challenges and communication differences often combine in complex and inter-related ways, leading to fragmented services and incomplete insights. Working with Child and Adolescent Mental Health emphasizes the importance of communication and provides practical advice and resources for practitioners to understand and optimize children's communication capacities. This book is essential for speech and language therapists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, educators, social workers, and anyone concerned with children's wellbeing and resilience.

Format: Hardback
Length: 236 pages
Publication date: 04 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In children, mental health challenges and communication differences often intertwine in intricate and interconnected ways, a crucial aspect that is often overlooked. Surprisingly, communication is frequently overshadowed, leading professionals to view children through separate lenses of either mental health or communication, resulting in incomplete insights and the omission of important perspectives.

Working with Child and Adolescent Mental Health makes a compelling argument that communication should be at the forefront and a primary consideration when addressing children's mental health. This book, with its practical approach and user-friendly format, offers practical strategies for achieving this by highlighting how practitioners and services can work more collaboratively to understand and enhance children's communication capacities.

This comprehensive book encompasses a range of valuable features, including:

Practical advice: Drawing from current research, the book provides practical guidance that is easy to understand and apply. It offers insights into identifying and responding to the unique needs of children and young people with complex combined communication and mental health needs.

Guidance for practitioners: The book provides comprehensive guidance to help practitioners competently and compassionately identify and address the needs of children and young people with complex communication and mental health requirements. It offers practical tips and techniques to support practitioners in their daily practice.

Real-life case studies: The book includes real-life case studies from various settings, showcasing the practical application of the discussed topics. These case studies provide encouragement and inspiration to practitioners, illustrating the positive outcomes that can be achieved when communication is prioritized.

Checklists and questionnaires: The book includes helpful checklists and questionnaires that practitioners can use in their daily practice. These tools assist practitioners in assessing and monitoring children's communication abilities, as well as identifying areas for improvement.

Recommendations for additional resources: The book provides recommendations for useful additional resources, such as books, websites, and training programs, to further enhance practitioners' knowledge and skills in working with children with complex communication and mental health needs.

Tools for reflection and enhancement: The book includes tools to support reflection and enhancement for individual practitioners and services. These tools encourage practitioners to reflect on their practice, identify areas for growth, and implement strategies to improve their effectiveness in supporting children's mental health.

Essential reading for speech and language therapists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, educators, social workers, and anyone else concerned with children's wellbeing and resilience, this book highlights the transformative impact of placing communication at the center health. By recognizing the centrality of communication and fostering collaborative efforts among practitioners and services, this book empowers professionals to provide comprehensive and holistic support to children and young people, promoting their mental health, well-being, and overall development.

Weight: 619g
Dimension: 297 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032192819