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Social, economic, and theoretical changes in the current clinical landscape are adding up to profound changes in children's services--not the least of which is an expanded need for mental health services. Professionals--novices and veteran clinicians alike--wonder how to fill this demand in the present climate of turf wars, reorganizations, and budget cuts. The Handbook of Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and Families cogently analyzes the issues and provides the answers, from current issues and emerging therapeutic trends to new avenues of treatment. Thoroughly researches and documented buy industry experts, it presents the widest range of mental health services available to youth and their families.

Areas of coverage include:

Specific modalities in service delivery, including in-patient and day treatment facilities, pediatric hospitals, and community mental health centers as well as rural, school, and primary care settings.

Services tailored to special populations, such as adolescent sex offenders, homeless children and their families, children with chronic illness, oppositional teens, abuse situations, and children exposed to traumatic events.

Details on preventative programs for child abuse, substance abuse, STD's, and gang violence.

An in-depth examination of the latest developments in children's services, including therapeutic camping and Internet-based treatment.

Approaches and methods for evaluating service organization, delivery, and efficacy.

Few areas of mental health care demonstrate the need for complementary services as much as child and family practice does. With this need firmly in mind, the Handbook encourages creativity and collaboration within practice settings and across agencies. For clinicians, administrators, school practitioners, and advanced-level students, this is a reference certain to havelasting impact on the field.

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Steele and Roberts have edited a resource for mental health professionals that is current, valuable, and ready for the bookshelves of all who care for (or plan to care for) children, adolescents, and families. As the mental health arena for this population continues to change, related to such issues as third-party reimbursement and both a proliferation and sometimes a poverty of services, providers often do not recognize viable options for needed services. This handbook provides readers with an overview of a wide variety of treatment settings from least restrictive to maximally restrictive. Contributors address primary, secondary, and tertiary care for many issues and disorders this population faces. Empirically driven, this handbook encourages future research and collaboration among mental health professionals regardless of their individual disciplines. Divided into roughly four sections, the book focuses on particular modalities of service delivery, an array of services for specific populations, innovative and novel forms of service delivery, and evaluation of mental health services. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above. M. M. Slusser Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

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Ric G. Steele, Ph.D., ABPP, is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Kansas, in the Clinical Child Psychology Program. He earned his doctorate from the University of Georgia in clinical psychology, with a specialization in clinical child psychology, completed a clinical internship at the University of Tennessee (Memphis) Professional Psychology Internship Consortium, and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, TN). Dr. Steele is an associate editor for the Journal of Child and Family Studies, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. He has published more than 40 journal articles and book chapters, and recently co-edited the Handbook of Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and Families. Dr. Steele's research is concerned with the promotion of physical and mental health across a continuum of health risk categories including healthy children, children at risk for disease, and children with diagnosed medical conditions.