Promoting Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• Main Authors: Fertman, Carl I. 1950- (Author), Delgado, Myrna M. (Author), Tarasevich, Susan L. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Burlington, MA Jones & Bartlett Learning 2014
• Subjects: Community Mental Health Services > organization & administration; Adolescent; Child; Health Promotion > methods; Psychology, Adolescent > methods; Psychology, Child > methods; School Health Services; United States
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• Physical Description: xxii, 322 pages illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781449658991; 1449658997

A Focus on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Promoting Child and Adolescent Mental Health is written for health education students with a keen focus on how to build sustainable support systems across the community, classroom, schools and families to adequately promote positive behavior and mental health for both children and adolescents. The text addresses a wide range of learning challenges and mental health issues and outlines the support needed to provide communities and schools with the proper guidance to create an adaptable system which promotes child and adolescent mental health allowing them to flourish. The text presents mental health as a community-based challenge. By focusing on children and adolescents, it allows undergraduate and graduate students to concentrate on specific populations while acquiring skills that are applicable to a broad spectrum of diverse communities. This innovative text models teamwork across a variety of disciplines and encourages students to develop connections across communities and systems to promote child and adolescent mental health