Bookeditor, Jane Meschan Foy.
Summary: "This indispensable resource provides vital guidance for integrating mental health care into your primary care practice. Learn from leading experts the latest information on enhancements to the medical home and on the care of children and adolescents with mental health symptoms that do not rise to the threshold for a diagnosis, as well as those that do"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Part 1: The pediatric advantage. Integrating preventive mental health care into pediatric practice
Pediatric care of children and adolescents with mental health problems
Part 2: Enhancing pediatric mental health care. Office and network systems to support mental health care
Partnering to improve community mental health systems
Effective communication methods: common factors skills
Part 3: Elements of care. Iterative mental health assessment
Psychosocial therapies
Self-regulation therapies and biofeedback
Complementary and integrative medical therapies
Adapting psychosocial interventions to primary care
Psychotropic medications in primary care
Transitioning adolescents with mental health conditions to adult care
Part 4: Pediatric care of children with common mental health concerns, signs, and symptoms. Agitation, suicidality, and other psychiatric emergencies
Anxiety and trauma-related distress
Disruptive behavior and aggression
Eating abnormalities
Emotional or behavioral disturbance in children younger than 5 years
Family dysfunction
Gender expression and identity
Inattention and impulsivity
Learning difficulty
Low mood
Maternal depression
Medically unexplained symptoms
Nonadherence to medical treatment
School absenteeism and school refusal
Self-injury
Sleep disturbances
Speech and language concerns
Substance use 1: use of tobacco and nicotine
Substance use 2: use of other substances
Substance use 3: specialty referral and comanagement
Appendixes.