Rowman & Littlefield Publishers From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Iacapap)

From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health has been shaped to reflect the mental health needs of children and adolescents in low and middle income countries of the world. It also includes chapters on topics based on research and practice in high income countries which may have lessons and implications universally. The first section of the book takes a child and adolescent mental health services perspective encompassing epidemiology, mental health needs, and selected policy issues. The second section provides summaries of research findings into the mechanisms for problems frequently encountered in child and adolescent psychiatric practice: schizophrenia, mood disorders, and sleep problems. The third and last section is about interventions and practice. It describes the treatment gap between low and middle income countries in relation to child and adolescent mental health and shows how professionals or lay people may be trained to effectively deliver interventions. This monograph has been produced for the 21st congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) to be held in Durban, South Africa, in 2014. This is the first congress of IACAPAP in Africa, and it takes place at an appropriate time in view of the continent’s burgeoning child population, significant economic growth and wish to improve the populations’ health. Review The world population balance is shifting. Rich, developed countries' inhabitants are becoming older while people in low and middle income countries are becoming younger, so much so that a large proportion of the world's youth now lives in these countries. Another shift is also taking place in youth-rich countries: their leaders are increasingly concerned about improving the mental health of their people and realize the need to train more and better professionals to deal with these problems. This book is a key source of information for policy and practice that would be useful for professionals in training and leaders when addressing these issues.--Joseph M. Rey, PhD, University of Sydney About the Author Jean-Philippe Raynaud, MD, is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Toulouse University and head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Toulouse University Hospital. Matthew Hodes, PhD, is senior lecturer in child & adolescent psychiatry at Imperial College London. Susan Shur-Fen Gau, PhD, is chair of the Department of Psychiatry at National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine.