Promoting the Emotional Well Being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health : A Handbook

This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention, and draws out the implications for preventive measures and promotion of emotional well-being. The authors, from a range of professional disciplines, emphasise the importance of early intervention and prevention, exploring in particular how initiatives in parenting and education can promote children's emotional well-being. The topics they cover include: \*the prevention and management of addiction and eating disorders \*the development of culturally sensitive services for ethnic minority children and families \*the impact of parenting programmes and the life skills education programmes in schools \*ways of meeting the mental health needs of children who are socially excluded, homeless or in local authority care. Providing examples of a broad range of projects and initiatives in Britain and other European countries, this handbook will be an invaluable resource for all professionals working in child and adolescent mental health. Promoting the Emotional Well-being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health: A Handbook......Page 3 Contents......Page 7 Foreword......Page 9 Preface......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 13 1. Introduction......Page 15 2. Developmental Perspective......Page 29 3. Attachment Theory and Mental Health......Page 49 4. Emotion Regulation and Mental Health......Page 69 5. Attention and Mental Health......Page 85 6. Addiction as a Mark of Adulthood: The enduring fascination of drugs and alcohol among adolescents......Page 101 7. Parenting......Page 113 8. Life Skills Education through Schools......Page 132 9. Prevention of Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents......Page 149 10. Prevention of Eating Disorders......Page 173 11. Promotion of Prosocial Development and Prevention of Conduct Disorders......Page 198 12. Prevention of Mental Health Problems in Socially Excluded Children and Young People: A model for mental health service pr......Page 219 13. Developing Culturally Sensitive Services to meet the Mental Health Needs of Ethnic Minority Children......Page 234 14. Ethnic Minority Children and Families and Mental Health: Preventive approaches......Page 255 15. The Mental Health Europe Projects and the Greek Perspective......Page 267 The Contributors......Page 278 Subject Index......Page 281 Author Index......Page 286 It provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation, attention and draws out the implications for preventive measures. There is emphasis on the importance of how initiatives in parenting and education can promote children's emotional well-being This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention and draws out the implications for preventative measures and promotion of emotional well-being