Creating Change for Complex Children and their Families (eBook)

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multi-Family Work

Jo Holmes, Amelia Oldfield, Marion Polichroniadis (Autoren)

Jo Holmes, Amelia Oldfield, Marion Polichroniadis (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
256 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85700-440-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Using detailed case studies, this book focuses on the needs of children with a range of behavioural difficulties, and explores their complicated interactions. The book examines how to integrate multi-disciplinary interventions and how to use the powerful relationships that develop to enable families to achieve positive, lasting changes.

---

The strain of caring for children struggling with severe and complex mental health needs affects the entire family. The staff at the innovative Croft Child and Family Unit have developed a unique approach of working intensively with the whole family, and encouraging them to share their experiences with other families, to instigate a complete change that will benefit all family members.Using detailed case studies to illustrate the model, the book focuses on the needs of children with a wide range of developmental, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and explores the complicated interactions between these children, their families and their communities. The care team includes nurses, psychiatrists, doctors, family therapists and creative therapists, social workers and teachers. They examine how to integrate a range of therapeutic interventions and how to use the powerful relationships that develop between professionals and families to enable positive, lasting changes. This book will be indispensable reading for trainees and professionals working with children with mental health problems and their families, and special needs educationalists wanting to understand the benefits of an intensive, multi-family approach to treatment for children who do not respond to standard community interventions.

Autor

Jo Holmes has been the Medical Director of the Croft Child and Family Unit for over ten years. She undertakes specialist assessments of children relating to autism spectrum disorders, attachment disorders and other conditions. She also trains child psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Amelia Oldfield is a music therapist at the Croft Child and Family Unit and has worked in child and family psychiatry for over 20 years. She is a lecturer in Music Therapy at Anglia Ruskin University. Marion Polichroniadis was a consultant clinical psychologist at the Croft Child and Family Unit. She has over 30 years' experience of working as a child psychologist in a range of settings including education, child development centres and child and adolescent mental health services.

Inhalt

Foreword. Prologue. 1. Setting the Scene. 2. Therapeutic Engagement. 3. Structure and Containment. 4. A Nurturing Environment. 5. Multi-Family Work. 6. Accessing Learning. 7. Fostering the Child's Social World. 8. Understanding the Individual. 9. Understanding the Family. 10. Creating a New Story. 11. Reflection and Evolution. Appendices. References. Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2011
• Vorwort: Ian M Goodyer
• Zusatzinfo: 12 black and white photographs
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
• Schlagworte: behavioural difficulties • Case Studies • Complex • Counselling • doctors • educational psychologists • Mental Health • nurses • psychiatrists • Residential Care • social workers • Special Needs • Teachers • Therapeutic Interventions • Therapists • Young people
• ISBN-10: 0-85700-440-9 / 0857004409
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85700-440-6 / 9780857004406