Mental Health Handbook for Schools
Author(s): Mary Atkinson & Garry Hornby
This is a reference book providing information on a comprehensive range of mental health problems which teachers are often confronted with.
Drawing on research and practice in these areas the book considers what schools can do, within the special needs framework, to help pupils with these problems. It also reflects on the role of the mental health services in relation to schools and how schools can adopt a whole-school preventative approach to mental health problems.
The authors look at a range of mental health problems including: conduct disorders; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; eating disorders; anxiety disorders, including school phobia; substance abuse; depression; suicide and attempted suicide; soiling and wetting; obsessive-compulsive disorders; schizophrenia; and developmental disorders.
The authors also look at situations that can often lead to the development of mental health problems: bullying; divorce and marital conflict; bereavement; physical and emotional abuse; and post traumatic stress.
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Winner of the TES/ NASEN Academic Book Award 2002
'Useful reading for the non-specialist teacher. Even where a problem is clearly intractable ... the authors are able to offer encouraging and positive advice.' -- Gerald Haigh, Times Educational Supplement
'An excellent study of the range of childhood and adolescent mental health and the circumstances that lead to them ... Of interest to a wide readership and especially useful for school counsellors as well as classroom teachers.'--Judges' comment - Winner of the TES/ NASEN Academic Book Award 2002
1. Introduction 2. Normal and Abnormal Development 3. Conduct Disorder 4. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 5. Eating Disorders 6. Anxiety Disorders 7. Substance Abuse 8. Depression 9. Suicidal Behaviour and Deliberate Self-harm 10. Soiling and Wetting 11. Obsessive-compulsive Disorder 12. Schizophrenia 13. Autism 14. Special Educational Needs 15. Bullying 16. Parental Separation and Divorce 17. Bereavement 18. Child Abuse and Neglect 19. Post-traumatic Stress 20. Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents 21. Promoting Mental Health in Schools
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