Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada is the first book to cover child and adolescent mental health from a practical, settings-based approach. Rather than focusing on disorder etiology or diagnostic criteria, the cases in this book emphasize how mental health concerns manifest themselves in a variety of service contexts. Each chapter, contributed by a practitioner in the human services, provides an overview of the setting to create the context for practice. The contributors present appropriate interventions and activities for that setting, including interventions specific to the unique needs of refugee, indigenous, and LGBTQ children and youth. Covering trauma-based behaviours and attachment difficulties, practitioner wellness, residential care, in-patient care, school settings, family homes, recreational settings, secured programs, and juvenile justice, this collection will help to prepare future front-line professionals to effectively provide mental health support across milieus. This book is suitable for undergraduate child and adolescent mental health courses in child and youth care, psychology, child and family studies, and social work. Reviews: “I highly recommend this timely, relevant, and entirely useful book. Each chapter provides a thorough and accessible analysis of the issues that are its focus and with that also offers clear, workable, and compassionate practice guidelines that are immediately transferable to the everyday lives of child and youth care professionals. These authors have oriented us to the central tenets of ethical practice that are foundational to effective engagement with children, youth, and their families and communities.” —Sibylle Artz, Full Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, and Editor, International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies “Child and Youth Mental Health in Canada provides a refreshing combination of conceptual, practical, and strengths-focused approaches to helping young people before or after a mental health diagnosis. The editors and authors approach mental health from the perspective of a social and cultural construction, recognizing that a diagnosis is merely a label and is not necessarily accompanied by a ‘user’s manual’ for parents or young people. The authors provide practical suggestions for accommodating and supporting young people toward success. Each chapter provides case studies to pull together the important concepts as well as reflective questions that prompt readers to attend to their own awareness about their relationships with young people struggling with mental health concerns. Readers are encouraged to understand that mental health is not static and that labels are guides, not prescriptions.” —Carol Stuart, Interim Provost and Vice-President Academic, Vancouver Island University Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Practitioner Wellness Patricia Kostouros Chapter 2 Trauma and Attachment Brenda Thompson Chapter 3 Family Home Theresa Tucker-Wright Chapter 4 Elementary School Brenda Thompson, Caroline Westwood, and Darci Fulton Chapter 5 Junior High and High School Nicole Caines Chapter 6 Recreation Howard Bloom Chapter 7 Residential Care Katharin Pritchard Chapter 8 Secure Treatment Jason Slemko, Bryan Hume, Roy Bailey, Lorinda Molner, and Patricia Kostouros Chapter 9 Youth Shelter Donna Barker and Brad Pickford Chapter 10 Youth Criminal Justice Kristen Dubrule and Michelle Briegel Chapter 11 Youth in Transition Chelan McCallion Conclusion Appendix A Class Activities Appendix B Links to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -Fifth Edition About the Authors: Patricia Kostouros is an Associate Professor in the Department of Child Studies and Social Work at Mount Royal University. Brenda Thompson is an instructor in both the Child and Youth Care bachelor degree and the Correctional Services diploma program at MacEwan University. |