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Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada
Cases from Front-Line Settings
Edited by Patricia Kostouros, Brenda Thompson
November 2018
Print ISBN: 9781773380674
Overview
Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada is a practical guide for front-line practitioners that looks beyond diagnostic labels. It offers a progressive response to mental health concerns that is humane and effective. Instead of pathologizing human behaviour, the text focuses on understanding behaviour and intervening from a relational perspective.
Written by scholars and professionals in the field, each chapter presents a unique perspective as it probes into the specific concerns and complications observed in different settings of front-line practice. This discussion illuminates setting-appropriate interventions and activities to meet the needs of practitioners and clients, including the unique needs of immigrant, refugee, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ children and youth.
Features include case studies, illustrations by Kyle Charles and Shoshana Laidlaw, reflective questions, suggested activities, and an appendix linking relevant DSM-5 diagnoses for each chapter, making this edited collection an essential learning resource for students in child and adolescent mental health courses in child and youth care, psychology, social work, and nursing.
Features
- bridges theory to real-world application
- presents a strength-based and relational approach
- offers chapters that are accompanied by case studies, which have been developed into graphic art stories
- includes chapter pre-reading and reflective questions, and suggested class activities with a focus on the use of the arts
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Practitioner Wellness
Patricia Kostouros
Chapter 2 Trauma and Attachment
Brenda Thompson
Chapter 3 Family Home
Theresa Tucker-Wright
Chapter 4 Elementary School
Brenda Thompson, Caroline Westwood, and Darci Fulton
Chapter 5 Junior High and High School
Nicole Caines
Chapter 6 Recreation
Howard Bloom
Chapter 7 Residential Care
Katharin Pritchard
Chapter 8 Secure Treatment
Jason Slemko, Bryan Hume, Roy Bailey, Lorinda Molner, and Patricia Kostouros
Chapter 9 Youth Shelter
Donna Barker and Brad Pickford
Chapter 10 Youth Criminal Justice
Kristen Dubrule and Michelle Briegel
Chapter 11 Youth in Transition
Chelan McCallion
Conclusion
Appendix A Class Activities
Appendix B Links to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -Fifth Edition
