Main description:

Does your child throw embarrassing temper tantrums in public? Are you worried about your best friend who has become preoccupied with food, yet skips meals? Is there a child in your class who seems to have no concentration and is always causing trouble? These factsheets may be able to help. These short, simply written and easily understandable information sheets offer parents, teachers and young people practical and up-to-date information on what you can do if you are worried about your child, a pupil or a friend. There are 46 different factsheets covering a wide range of emotional, behavioural and mental health problems that often affect children and young people. Each factsheet explains what the problem might be, the possible causes and effects, gives tips to help you deal with it, outlines the treatments available, gives the best available evidence, and shows how and where to get help and further information. Many include real-life case studies. Each factsheet can be photocopied (free of charge) for use as handouts for patients, young people, pupils, parents or friends. This is a completely revised and expanded edition. Readership: 1.
Primary healthcare profressionals (General Practictioners, practice nurses, community nurses, etc.) or members of the mental health team. 2. Any professional working with children and young people (teachers, school nurses, social workers, etc.). 3. Parents, anyone caring for a child or young person and young people themselves.

Contents:

Factsheets for young people: 1. Bipolar disorder. 2. Cannabis and mental health. 3. Cognitive - behavioural therapy (CBT). 4. Coping with stress. 5. Depression. 6. Drugs and alcohol. 7. Exercise and mental health. 8. Mental illness in a parent 9. Obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD). 10. Psychosis. 11. Schizophrenia. 12. When bad things happen - overcoming adversity and developing resilience. 13. Worries about weight and eating problems. 14. Worries and anxieties. 15. Who's who in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Factsheets for parents, carers and anyone who works with young people: 1. Good parenting. 2. The restless and excitable child. 3. Dealing with tantrums. 4. Children who soil or wet themselves. 5. Sleep problems in childhood and adolescence. 6. Behavioural problems and conduct disorder. 7. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 8. The child with general learning disability. 9. Specific learning difficulties. 10. Autism and Asperger syndrome. 11. Depression in children. 12. Worries and anxieties: helping children to cope. 13. Divorce or separation of parents: the impact on children and adolescents. 14. Death in the family: helping children to cope. 15. The emotional cost of bullying. 16. Traumatic stress in children. 17. Domestic violence: its effects on children. 18. Child abuse and neglect: the emotional effect. 19. Drugs and alcohol: what parents need to know. 20. Self-harm in young people. 21. Psychosis. 22. Schizophrenia. 23. Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. 24. Obsessive - compulsive disorder in children and young people. 25. Eating disorders in young people. 26. Chronic physical illness: the effects on mental health. 27. Medically unexplained physical symptoms. 28. Chronic fatigue syndrome: helping your child get better. 29. Parental mental illness: the problems for children. 30. Who's who in CAMHS. 31. Surviving adolescence.