STRESS AND MENTAL ILLNESS
A growing area of concern, impacting children who are suffering themselves or who have family members with mental illness.
Helping families with troubled children
(Carole Sutton, Wiley-Blackwall)
2012 conference recommendation by Colin Bennett
The growing incidence of mental health problems and offending in adolescents suggests that preventive work with parents remains a critical area. This book stresses the importance of working with families before difficult behaviour becomes entrenched and resistant to intervention. This preventive work should take place from pregnancy onwards. Drawing on social learning theory and cognitive behavioural principles, Sutton provides a structured approach to intervention. There are specific chapters on sleep problems, anxiety and depression, eating problems, wetting and soiling, serious behaviour problems and ADHD.
‘But I don’t think like that.’
(Kate Middleton, 2014 conference)
With stress and mental illness on the rise in children, Dr Middleton looks at the practical ways we can support both children and their families.
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