Mental Health Care of Children and Adolescents
A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians

Jane Meschan Foy (Edited by)

9781610021500

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2018

932 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 1.5 kg

“The book will certainly serve as a wonderful resource for primary care pediatricians. Congratulations to the AAP and Dr. Foy on this very helpful effort.” — Marshall L. Land, Jr., MD FAAP

This indispensable resource is designed to help pediatric health care providers assess, treat and manage children’s mental health care issues a primary care setting. Guidance on developing the community-level systems needed for quality mental health care of children is provided, plus the latest information on enhancements to the medical home, mental health competencies, and prevention and treatment strategies.

Topics covered include:

• Assessing and monitoring children’s mental health in primary care
• Family-centered care and how-to apply behavioral change science 
• Anticipatory guidance, surveillance and screening
• Care of special populations
• Psychotropic medications in primary care
• Common signs and symptoms

• Introduction
• Part I: Framework for enhancing children’
  s mental health
• Community strategies
• 1. Promoting the Social-Emotional Health of Young Children
• 2. Promoting Adolescents'
  Mental Health
• 3. Promoting Mental Health in Schools
• 4. Partnering to Improve Community Mental Health Systems
• Practice strategies
• 5. Office and Network Systems to Support Mental Health Care
• 6. Assessing and Monitoring Children’
  s Mental Health in Primary Care
• 7. Family-Centered Care: Applying Behavior Change Science
• 8. Culturally Effective Care
• Part II: Anticipatory guidance, surveillance, and screening
• The primary care advantage
• 9. Promoting mental health in pediatric practice
• Preventive themes 
  
• 10. Healthy Child Development
• 11. Family Support
• 12. Healthy Sleep
• 13. Healthy Weight
• 14. Healthy Use of Media
• 15. Healthy Active Living
• 16. Violence Prevention
• 17. Healthy Sexual Development and Sexuality
• Care of special populations
• 18. Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences
• 19. Families New to the United States
• 20. Children in Foster or Kinship Care
• 21. Adopted Children
• 22. Children in Poverty
• 23. Children of Divorce
• 24. Children in Military Families
• 25. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
• 26. Children with Gender Expression and Identity Issues
• 27. Children in Gay- and Lesbian-parented Families
• 28. Children in Self-care
• 29. Homeless Children
• 30. Children Affected by Racism
• 31. Children with Chronic Medical Conditions
• 32. Adolescents who are Pregnant or Parenting
• 33. Children in the Juvenile Justice System
• Part III: Addressing mental health concerns in children
• General principles and process
• 34. Pediatric Care of Children with Mental Health Problems
• Elements of care
• 35. Effective Communication Strategies: Common Factors Skills
• 36. Interviewing Adolescents
• 37. Counseling Parents of Adolescents
• 38. Psychosocial Therapies
• 39. Adapting Psychosocial Interventions to Primary Care
• 40. Psychotropic Medications in Primary Care
• 41. Self-Regulation Therapies and Biofeedback
• 42. Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
• 43. Transitioning Youth with Mental Health Conditions to Adult Care
• Common signs and symptoms
• 44. Agitation, Suicidality, and Other Psychiatric Emergencies
• 45. Anxiety and Trauma-related Distress
• 46. Disruptive Behavior and Aggression
• 47. Eating Abnormalities
• 48. Emotional or Behavioral Disturbance in Children Younger than Five Years of Age
• 49. Family Dysfunction
• 50. Inattention and Impulsivity
• 51. Learning Difficulty
• 52. Low Mood
• 53. Maternal Depression
• 54. Medically Unexplained Symptoms
• 55. Non-adherence to Medical Treatment
• 56. School Absenteeism and School Refusal
• 57. Self-injury
• 58. Sleep Disturbances
• 59. Speech and Language Concerns
• 60. Substance Use I: Use of Tobacco and Nicotine
• 61. Substance Use II: Use of Other Substances
• 62. Substance Use III:Specialty Referral and Co-management
• Appendix