Child Protection and Mental Health

Maternal mental health and risk of child protection involvement: mental health diagnoses associated with increased risk.

BACKGROUND Previous research shows that maternal mental illness is an important risk factor for child maltreatment. This study aims to quantify the relationship between maternal mental health and risk of child maltreatment according to the different types of mental health diagnoses. METHODS The study used a retrospective cohort of children born in Western Australia between 1990 and 2005, with...

Mental Health and the Child

As can readily be understood, such a wide, and rapid, expansion of a service, on a basis of far too few trained or experienced personnel, had its obvious dangers and disadvantages. The considerable variations of standards and staffing of Child Guidance Clinics today bear witness to the continuation of these stresses. Yet this mode of development has had also a profound influence on the pattern ...

Parenting and child mental health

This paper reviews parenting programmes and their effectiveness with families of young children and highlights additional resources for primary care practitioners. Typically, 30% of GP consultations concern child behaviour problems and established behaviour problems can have lasting effects on children's life chances. These problems can be identified in infancy and toddlerhood.Parenting is a ke...

IACAPAP Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Section A INTRODUCTION TO CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Background: During the last decade, pharmaceutical spending for patients with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been escalating internationally. Objectives: First, to estimate future trends of ADHD-related drug expenditures from the perspectives of the statutory health insurance (SHI; Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, GKV) in Germany and the National Health Service (NHS) in Eng...