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In-patient child psychiatry

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Essential Reading for clinicians, managers and researchers in child psychiatry, this authoritative book provides accessible coverage of essential theory as well as clear practical guidance to inpatient child psychiatric treatment. This method of treatment has fallen out of fashion in recent years in favour of community-based care, but remains a useful setting for treating more seriously ill patients. Bringing together contributions from across the profession, this book covers the 'state-of-the-art' in current clinical treatment, and sets a bold new agenda for the future, arguing that inpat

Title In-patient child psychiatry : modern practice, research and the future / edited by Jonathan Green and Brian Jacobs.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1998
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Cover
In-patient Child Psychiatry Modern practice, research and the future
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART I The current context
Introduction
1 Current challenges
2 Current practice: a questionnaire survey of in-patient child psychiatry in the United Kingdom
3 Historical themes
PART II Treatment process
4 The process of admission
5 Goal setting
6 Initial assessment
7 The treatment and discharge phases of admission
PART III Therapeutic elements in in-patient treatment
8 Engaging and working with the family9 The ward as a therapeutic agent
10 Behavioural and cognitive therapies
11 Psychodynamic psychotherapy in the in-patient setting
12 Educational management
PART IV Team organisation and dynamics
13 The in-patient team: models from management theory
14 Team dynamics in different phases of admission
15 Staff supervision and support
PART V Critical areas of management
WARD ISSUES
16 Managing oppositional and aggressive behaviour
17 Child maltreatment and in-patient units
18 Unwanted effects of in-patient treatment: anticipation, prevention, repairMANAGEMENT OF SOME SPECIFIC DISORDERS
19 Externalising disorders: conduct disorder and hyperkinetic disorder
20 Affective disorders and psychosis
21 Obsessive compulsive disorder
22 Neuropsychiatry in childhood: residential treatment
23 Pervasive developmental disorder
DISORDERS OF PARENTING
24 Severe breakdown in the parenting of infants
25 Attachment disorders
26 Some cognitive-behavioural approaches to parenting used in children's in-patient unit settings
PART VI Research
27 Research into efficacy and process of treatment28 Methodological issues and future directions for in-patient research
PART VII Management and finance
29 Childhood, mental health and the law
30 Economic evaluation and child psychiatric in-patient services
31 Commissioning and contracting: implications of the National Health Service reorganisation
PART VIII Other residential options
32 Therapeutic children's homes
33 A therapeutic school
PART IX Conclusions
34 Summary and conclusions: implications for the future
Subject index
Name index
Extent 1 online resource (444 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010708237305171
MARC RECORDS

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