The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care: The New Community Psychiatry

The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care is a groundbreaking volume that presents the latest thinking in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry written by a stellar panel of child and adolescent psychiatrists. The Handbook shows that the best way to help at risk children is not in isolated doctor and patient treatment rooms but with community based systems of care (SOC) that incorporate an interagency integration of services based on a client centered and family empowering orientation. This important resource offers psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, pediatricians, nurses, educators, lawyers and judges, politicians, child advocates, parents, and families a guide to this dynamic new theory and practice. Comprehensive in scope, The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care includes vital information on a wide variety of topics including developmental and cognitive psychology in systems of care (SOCs); social sciences, neurobiology, and prevention in SOC; the best way to use psychopharmacology; family and community based interventions; culturally diverse populations; youth in juvenile justice and child welfare, school based services; and, partnerships among parents, consumers, and clinicians.