Understanding Uniqueness and Diversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Understanding Uniqueness and Diversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health examines the determinates of individual differences in children and young people, along with 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 individual differences amongst children. Topics cover the influence of economic adversities and gender differences on child development and life course, as well as the range of risk and protective factors associated with the onset and persistence of problems, including sections on anxiety disorders in infants, bipolar disorder, and tics and Tourette’s.

Additional sections focus on the potential for individualizing treatments as illustrated by pharmacogenomics, with another highlighting ways in which services can be adapted for specific environments, such as the needs of refugee children and systems of service delivery that can be enhanced by the use of telemedicine.

• Emphasizes the social and environmental influences on child and adolescent mental health
• 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
• Forwards a goal of producing a mental health workforce with internationally recognized competencies

Members of IACAPAP: health professionals in child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology, social work, pediatrics, public health, nursing, education, and social sciences

Part I - Understanding Diversity in Development and Psychopathology
1. Variations in Pathways Into and Out of Antisocial Behavior From the Perspective of Developmental  Psychopathology
ERIC ACQUAVIVA, PIERRE ELLUL, XAVIER BENAROUS
2. Developmental Considerations in Bipolar Disorder
MICHAL GOETZ, MARKETA MOHAPLOVA, ANTONIN SEBELA, TOMAS NOVAK
3. Heterogeneity in Tics and Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
VALSAMMA EAPEN, AMELIA WALTER, MARY M. ROBERTSON
4. Risk and Protective Factors and Course of Functional Somatic Symptoms in Young People
CHARLOTTE ULRIKKA RASK, IRMA J. BONVANIE, ELENA M. GARRALDA
5. Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders in Young People: A Cross-cultural Perspective
SELDA KOYDEMIR, CECILIA A. ESSAU

Part II - Uniqueness and Risk in Marginnalized Groups
6. Child Developmental Trajectories in Adversity: Environmental Embedding and Developmental Cascades in Contexts of Risk
XANTHE HUNT, MARK TOMLINSON
7. Infant Mental Health in Africa: Embracing Cultural Diversity
ASTRID BERG, ANUSHA LACHMAN, JUANE´ VOGES
8. Mental Health Service Provision for Child and Adolescent Refugees: European Perspectives
JOERG M. FEGERT, THORSTEN SUKALE, REBECCA C. BROWN
9. Sexuality and Gender Identity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Some Reflections on Social, Psychiatric, and Mental Health Service Changes
GORDON HARPER, MARI DOMINGUEZ, ANGELS MAYORDOMO-ARANDA, MATTHEW HODES

Part III - Supporting Uniqueness and Diversity Through Interventions and Services
10. Pharmacogenomics in the Treatment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
SALMA MALIK, SOPHIA A. WALKER, SASHA MALIK, LISA NAMEROW
11. Telepsychiatry and Digital Mental Health Care in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Implications for Service Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
SAVITA MALHOTRA, RUCHITA SHAH

Part IV - European Perspectives on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Training
12. Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Knowledge, Practice, and Services in Central Europe
HELMUT REMSCHMIDT, MICHAL GOETZ, PATRICK HAEMMERLE
13. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training in Europe
BRIAN W. JACOBS, ELIZABETH BARRETT, HENRIKJE KLASEN, PAUL ROBERTSON, LUCIA VA