Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Starting at the Beginning: Laying the Foundation for Lifelong Mental Health coincides with the 24th International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAPA) Congress in Singapore, June 2020. This book examines the determinates of individual differences in children and young people, and the origins of maladjustment and psychiatric disorders. It addresses the ways in which interventions and mental health services can be developed and shaped to address the individual differences amongst children. Additional topics include the environmental hazards and mental health and cultural psychiatry as a basic science to addressing mental health disparities, as well as the range disease burden risk costs in Asian countries.
Chapters dive deeper into anxiety disorders in infants, gaming disorder, pitfalls of treatment in OCD, and ADHD developmental neuropsychiatry. One section focuses policy for child and adolescent mental health including reviewing mental health services in China, Oceania and East Asia.
- Emphasizes social and environmental influences
- Focuses on early developmental and infancy processes
- Addresses the training of child and adolescent psychiatrists across Europe
- Covers a range of illustrative psychiatric disorders and problems
- Works toward the goal of producing a mental health workforce with internationally recognized competencies