Overview

Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth presents new insights into successfully working with children by concentrating on their capabilities and resilience. This book explores the continuum of children's needs and challenges from early childhood through adolescence. This text also supports child-centred and strengths-oriented approaches to intervention with children and introduces specific strategies for maximizing pro-social behaviours, self-concept, learning, and positive peer relationships in children at home, at school, and in the community. Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth shows how children's rights have slowly evolved over many years, from children's status as property in the 1600s to the twentieth-century innovations that give a child a specific legal status with a certain amount of freedom and self-determination. By emphasizing the self-concept and self-esteem guidelines outlined by this book, social workers, mental health specialists, and childcare professionals can help children transition into healthy adults, despite hardships, disabilities, or parent negligence. Chapters highlighting interview and assessment techniques as well as media-directed, creative child therapies will enhance counselling and intervention practices. Augmented with case scenarios and studies, empirical findings, and questions for discussion in every chapter, this book will help child service professionals as well as academics and students.

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Author:   Lonnie R. Helton ,  Mieko Kotake Smith ,  Mieko Kotake Smith
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780789015747

ISBN 10:   0789015749
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   18 August 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Strengths and Resilience of Children The Strengths Perspective The Strengths of Children Defining Resiliency Development of Resiliency Conceptual Model of Resiliency Person-Environmental Transaction for the Development of Resiliency Conclusion Strengths Story: Henry Lester Questions for Discussion Chapter 2. The Care of Children in American Society: Historical Events and Trends Early Perceptions and Treatment of Children Nineteenth-Century Efforts for Change Twentieth-Century Innovations Child Welfare Practice Conclusion Strengths Story: Cynthia Harper Questions for Discussion Chapter 3. Children and Family Relationships Children in Biological Families Children in Single-Parent Families Children in Blended Families Children in Gay and Lesbian Families Children in Multigenerational Families Children in Foster Families Children in Adoptive Families Children in Residential Settings Conclusion Strengths Story: Joanna Brown Questions for Discussion Chapter 4. Child Socialization and Peer Relationships Family Influences on Socialization School and Peer Relationships Children in the Community Conclusion Strengths Story: Billy Lapahie Questions for Discussion Chapter 5. Children and Learning Teacher Expectations and Learning Elements of Learning and Achievement Ethnic and Culturally Different Children Children and Special Education Home Schooling: An Educational Alternative Conclusion Strengths Story: Hannah Carter Questions for Discussion Chapter 6. Self-Concept and Self-Esteem Self-Esteem and Well-Being A Case Scenario of Resilience Conclusion Strengths Story: Michiko Tanaka Questions for Discussion Chapter 7. Adolescence Adolescent Ethnic and Racial Identity Gender Roles Adolescents and Sexual Orientation Transitions to Adulthood Conclusion Strengths Story: Zor Hollis Questions for Discussion Chapter 8. Child-Centered Practice Approaches: Emphasis on Strength and Resilience Guidelines for Interviewing and Assessing Children Guidelines for Interviewing and Assessing Adolescents Practice with Children in Child Welfare School Social Work and Counseling in School Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents Conclusion Strengths Story: Ina Abrams Questions for Discussion Chapter 9. Media-Directed, Creative Child Therapies Play Therapy Drawing and Art Therapy Puppet Therapy Clown Therapy Bibliotherapy Music Therapy Collaboration with Parents Conclusion Strengths Story: Helen McGuire Questions for Discussion Chapter 10. Evidence-Based Practice and Research for Promoting Children’s Strengths Introduction Resilience-Based Programs Conclusion Strengths Story: Charles Elliott Maples Questions for Discussion Chapter 11. Empowerment of Children in the Global Arena United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child International Adoptions A Case Scenario of International Adoption Conclusion Strengths Story: Antun (Tony) Boskovich Questions for Discussion Epilogue Index Reference Notes Included

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