This new guide will help clinicians recognize and manage emerging mental health issues using interventions that are designed for the primary care setting.
Mental Health Strategies for Pediatric Care provides a framework for identifying and understanding the common factors and common elements of mental health care and, as a natural outgrowth, incorporating the following considerations into daily practice:
- Eliciting patient and family social and mental health concerns- Increasing patient and family understanding of social and mental health problems- Managing mental health issues that have resulted in functional problems but not reached the level of a diagnosable disorder- Using therapeutic strategies that are an early, first-line approach to common mental health concerns- Developing positive patient and family attitudes about seeking treatment from social service or mental health specialists- Supporting the patient and family in maintaining emotional and behavioral change that results from mental health specialty treatment- And more!