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Child and Adolescent Mental Health
First Edition
Edited by:
- Usha S. Nayar - Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
October 2012 | 396 pages | SAGE India
Professionals, academics, and policy makers in the field of child and adolescent development tend to use theoretical frameworks stemming from traditional classified disciplines of psychology, sociology, political science, economics, education, and social work. This book creates an opportunity for experts to use interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives, and provides evidence-based knowledge to deal with the stresses of children and adolescents living in poverty, difficult socioeconomic conditions, and varied cultures.
It also conveys the message that shared understandings can promote well-meaning and well-reasoned intervention success in similar contexts across nations in which children and adolescents are growing up in complex and risky environments.
The contributors, from multiple disciplines, weave their knowledge around the development of children in contemporary society. They highlight the necessary conversations that schools, families, communities, individuals, and nation-states need to have and, most importantly, the responsibility for everyone to develop an understanding of the mental-health needs of the new generation.
Marta Santos Pais
Foreword
PART ONE: ECONOMICS
Martin Knapp and David McDaid
PART TWO: CLINICAL CASE STUDIES
Raman Deep Pattanayak and Manju Mehta
Latha Nrugham and Vandana Varma Prakash
PART THREE: SPECIAL CONTEXTS
Shankar Das, Ashima Das, and George Leibowitz
Ragnhild Bjørnebekk
Usha S Nayar, Ingunn Hagen, Priya Nayar, and Dan Y Jacobsen
PART FOUR: SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL CLIMATE
Matthijs Cornelissen
Neharika Vohra and Esha Patnaik
Ajit K Dalal
PART FIVE: CHILD WELFARE
Jeanette Schmid
Patricia L Kohl
Irene Rizzini and Neli de Almeida
Jeanette Schmid
PART SIX: Interventions and Innovative Practices
Shirley Telles
Vandana Sharma and Mamta Sharma
Craig N Shealy, Devi Bhuyan, and Lee G Sternberger
Sebastián Javier Lipina, María Soledad Segretin, María Julia Hermida, and Jorge Augusto Colombo
Michael O'Loughlin
PART SEVEN: COUNTRY FOCUS-STATUS, POLICIES, AND CHILDREN'S VOICES
Maeve Thornton
Helia Molina, Paula Bedregal, and Maria Paz Guzman
Beatriz Oré and Martín Benavides
Usha S Nayar and Shankar Das