Critical Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Product DescriptionIn this thought-provoking text, a collection of respected authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience come together to challenge some of the prevailing ideas serving as the foundation for the current child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) structure.Providing a fresh new perspective on critical issues and seeking to stimulate reflection and debate; from managers and commissioners to newly qualified practitioners and students, this book will both challenge and energise readers, spurring them on to reconsider some of the pressing CAMH issues of our time.Review’A fascinating read from a great range of writers with some serious experience behind them. Readers should find plenty of ideas to help them reflect on, or kick-start, ways of working in CAMH that might just put some much-needed change in motion.’ a Angie Hart, Professor of Child, Family & Community Health, University of Brighton, UK’This book challenges us to look critically at our own practice and will raise some very interesting discussions. I strongly recommend it not only to students on post-registration courses, but to those on pre-registration courses who have a desire to work in this area once qualified.’ a Sharon Pagett, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire, UK”From the Back CoverIn this thought-provoking text, a collection of respected authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience comes together to challenge some of the prevailing ideas serving as the foundation for the current child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) structure.Seeking to stimulate reflection and debate, the book provides a fresh new perspective on critical issues such as:• The place of neuroscience in explaining mental health development in children and adolescents• The benefits of moving away from clinic-based practice, and towards an approach that reaches out into the community• The negative impact of resource pressures in CAMHS on the core therapeutic relationships between practitioners and young people.From managers and commissioners to newly qualified practitioners and students, this book will both challenge and energise readers, spurring them on to reconsider some of the pressing CAMH issues of our time.About the AuthorSarah Campbell has been painting patterns for textiles for well over fifty years; she co-founded the distinguished design company CollierCampbell with her late sister Susan Collier, formalising their sisterly partnership. She now works on her own – making, teaching, writing and continuing to paint designs both for commercial production and as special commissions. She is the co-author, with Emma Shackleton, of The Collier Campbell Archive, fifty years of passion in pattern and has published two other books: The Art of Pattern and Dailies, co-designed with Stafford Cliff.Sarah has mounted several exhibitions, a celebration of Susan’s and her fifty years in design, and two shows at The Fashion and Textile Museum. Starting her career making designs for Liberty of London in the ’60s, she has worked in the industry consistently ever since. Over the years, customers in the UK have included Bill Gibb, Yves St Laurent, Jaeger, Cacharel, Caroline Charles, Habitat, John Lewis, M&S, Conran, Fischbacher, Magpie Line, Museums and Galleries Ltd and Stringberry. In the US, she has collaborated with Martex, WestPoint Stevens, Springs Global, Imperial Wallcoverings, and more recently Michael Miller Fabrics, Free Spirit Fabrics, West Elm and Anthropologie.