This ground-breaking resource focuses on primary and secondary prevention, guiding pediatric care clinicians in incorporating mental health screening and surveillance into well child visits and provides evidence-based interventions to care for children and adolescents with mental health issues.
Gain in-depth guidance on the care of special populations of children who may be at increased risk for mental health problems: those exposed to adverse childhood experiences; children in military families; lesbian, gay and bisexual youth; children with gender expression and identity issues; children affected by racism; adolescents who are pregnant or parenting, and much more.
TOPICS INCLUDE
- Promoting healthy child development
- Children exposed to adverse childhood experiences
- Caring for families new to the United States
- Violence prevention
- Healthy sleep, weight, use of media, and active living
- Children in foster or kinship care or involved with child welfare
- Children of divorce
- Adopted children
- Children with chronic medical conditions
- And more…
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1: Promoting Mental Health in the Pediatric Medical Home
- 1. Healthy Child Development
- 2. Family-Centered Care: Applying Behavior Change Science
- 3. Culturally Effective Care
- 4. Interviewing Adolescents
- 5. Counseling Parents of Adolescents
- 6. Family Support
- 7. Healthy Sleep
- 8. Healthy Weight
- 9. Healthy Use of Media
- 10. Healthy Active Living
- 11. Violence Prevention
- 12. Healthy Sexual Development and Sexuality
- 13. Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences
- 14. Families New to the United States
- 15. Children in Foster or Kinship Care or Involved With Child Welfare
- 16. Adopted Children
- 17. Children in Poverty
- 18. Children of Divorce
- 19. Children in Military Families
- 20. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths
- 21. Children With Gender Expression and Identity Issues
- 22. Children in Gay- and Lesbian-Parented Families
- 23. Children in Self-care
- 24. Homeless Children
- 25. Children Affected by Racism
- 26. Children With Chronic Medical Conditions
- 27. Adolescents Who Are Pregnant or Parenting
- 28. Children in the Juvenile Justice System
- Part 2: Promoting Mental Health Beyond the Medical Home
- 29. Promoting the Mental Health of Young Children
- 30. Promoting the Health of Adolescents
- 31. Promoting Mental Health in Schools
- Appendixes
- 1: Algorithm: A Process for Integrating Mental Health Care Into Pediatric Practice
- 2: Mental Health Tools for Pediatrics
- 3: Sources of Key Mental Health Services
- 4: PracticeWise: Evidence-Based Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Interventions
- 5: Common Elements of Evidence-Based Practice Amenable to Primary Care: Indications and Sources
- Index