New book on child and adolescent mental health

Steven Walker, Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Health & Social Care has just published his seventh book since joining our University 14 years ago. The Social Worker Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Jessica Kingsley, ISBN 9781849051224) is a comprehensive guide to working with children and young people who are experiencing mental health problems, and equips students or qualified practitioners with the vital knowledge and skills to provide the best service to vulnerable young people.

The book covers:

  • The role social work can play in child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) and key ideas relating to mental health and young people
  • How social work skills can be applied and knowledge developed to enhance assessment, intervention and multi-disciplinary working
  • The wider social contexts of legal policy frameworks, and the importance of cultural spiritual and religious identity

The book includes and interactive learning format, encouraging readers to undertake practical exercises or tackle case studies to underpin a solid base of knowledge and theory.

Professor Stephen Briggs of the prestigious Tavistock Clinic in London wrote in his foreword:

As is demonstrated in this excellent book, social work can no longer stay on the margins of child and adolescent mental health practice, and needs to actively engage in the comprehensive adolescent mental health skills (CAMHS) agenda, at the levels of individual case assessment and intervention, service planning and delivery.
In return, CAMHS needs social work for the contribution it can make to understanding mental health difficulties from an inclusive perspective. With this book, Steven Walker has written an account of such clarity of balance that an active reading will provide practitioners with a comprehensive basis for undertaking this work. There is now a text for social workers that comprehensively connects social work to child and adolescent mental health.

For more information please contact Steven Walker at Steven.Walker@anglia.ac.uk
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