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Starting at the Beginning

Laying the Foundation for Lifelong Mental Health

  • 1st Edition - July 15, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Matthew Hodes, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Petrus J. De Vries
  • Language: English

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Description

Starting at the Beginning: Laying the Foundation for Lifelong Mental Health coincides with the 24th International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAPA) Congress in Singapore, June 2020. This book examines the determinates of individual differences in children and young people, along with the origins of maladjustment and psychiatric disorders. It addresses the ways in which interventions and mental health services can be developed and shaped to address individual differences among children. Additional topics include environmental hazards and mental health and cultural psychiatry as a basic science for addressing mental health disparities.

Chapters dive deeper into anxiety disorders in infants, gaming disorder, the pitfalls of treatment in OCD, and ADHD developmental neuropsychiatry. Another targeted section focuses on policies for child and adolescent mental health, including a review of mental health services in China, Oceania and East Asia.

Key features

  • Emphasizes social and environmental influences
  • Focuses on early developmental and infancy processes
  • Addresses the training of child and adolescent psychiatrists across Europe
  • Covers a range of illustrative psychiatric disorders and problems
  • Works toward the goal of producing a mental health workforce with internationally recognized competencies

Readership

Members of IACAPAP: health professionals in child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology, social work, pediatrics, public health, nursing, education, and social sciences

Table of contents

Preface
Stanley Kutcher

Introduction

I. Epidemiological and cultural perspectives in child and adolescent mental health

1. Prevalence, risk factors, and disease burden of child and adolescent mental disorders: Taiwanese and global aspects
Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Yi-Lung Chen

2. Cultural psychiatry as the basic science of addressing health and mental health disparities
Anthony P.S. Guerrero, Joy K.L. Andrade

II. Developmental neuropsychiatry: Risk, prevention, and intervention opportunities

3. Developmental neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric consequences of chemical exposure amongst children in South Korea
Yoonyoung Jang, Yun-Chul Hong, Nami Lee

4. Early life determinants of health: Invest early to break the cycle of long-term disadvantage in neurodevelopmental disorders
Valsamma Eapen, Susan Woolfenden, Susan Prescott, Antonio Mendoza Diaz, Mark Dadds

5. Challenges and opportunities of implementing early interventions for autism spectrum disorders in resource-limited settings: A South African example
Liezl Schlebusch, Nola J. Chambers, John-Joe Dawson-Squibb, Michal Harty, Lauren Franz, Petrus J. de Vries

III. New perspectives on problems and disorders

6. A developmental model of hikikomori: Possible ways to prevent and treat pathological social withdrawal
Takahiro A. Kato

7. Gaming disorder in young people
Daniel L. King, Paul H. Delfabbro

8. Common challenges and pitfalls in the treatment of paediatric OCD using CBT and medication
Georgina Krebs, Dominic Cottrell, Angela Lewis, Bruce Clark

9. Developmental perspectives on ADHD, treatment implications, and achieving good outcomes
David Coghill, Sarah Seth

IV. Child and adolescent mental health policy and services—Asian perspectives

10. Starting small: Developing child-centric mental health policies
Daniel Shuen Sheng Fung, Daniel Poremski

11. Chinese policy and practice in child and adolescent mental health
Yi Zheng

12. Child and adolescent mental health needs, services, and gap in East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
Tomoya Hirota, Anthony Guerrero, Norbert Skokauskas

Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 15, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

MH

Matthew Hodes

Matthew Hodes, MBBS BSc MSc PhD FRCPsych, is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Imperial College London, and Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust. His research interests are social and cultural psychiatry, including refugee mental health, the interface between mental and physical health, and evidence-based approaches to treatment. He is currently the Lead Editor for the Monographs of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professionals (IACAPAP).
Affiliations and expertise
Imperial College London, and Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

SG

Susan Shur-Fen Gau

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinical Services at National Taiwan University Hospital, specializing in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Gau’s research interests include pharmacoepidemiology, sleep medicine, and clinical, neuropsychological, brain imaging, and genetic studies on attention-deficit hyper activity disorder and autism spectrum disorders.
Affiliations and expertise
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC

PD

Petrus J. De Vries

As part of his work, Dr. de Vries conducts research on adolescent health (sexual and reproductive, adolescent mental health, bullying in adolescents, health and education systems for adolescents, and intimate partner violence in adolescents), autism (screening and diagnostic tool evaluation and development, evaluation and development of interventions, health and education systems, and use of technology), and tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC-assocationed neuropsychiatric disorders, clinical trials of mTOR inhibitors, and natural history of TSC).
Affiliations and expertise
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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