Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth

A Strengths and Well-Being Model
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7890-1574-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Use a strengths perspective for working with your younger clients!

Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth: A Strengths and Well-Being Model presents new insights into successfully working with children by concentrating on their capabilities and resilience. This book explores the continuum of children’s needs and challenges from early childhood through adolescence. This text also supports child-centered and strengths-oriented approaches to intervention with children and introduces specific strategies for maximizing pro-social behaviors, self-concept, learning, and positive peer relationships in children at home, at school, and in the community.

Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth shows how children’s rights have slowly evolved over many years, from children’s status as property in the 1600s to the twentieth-century innovations that give a child a specific legal status with a certain amount of freedom and self-determination. By emphasizing the self-concept and self-esteem guidelines outlined by this book, social workers, mental health specialists, and childcare professionals can help children transition into healthy adults, despite hardships, disabilities, or parent negligence. Chapters highlighting interview and assessment techniques as well as media-directed, creative child therapies will enhance your counseling and intervention practices.

Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth provides you with insight on: - the relationships between children and family environmentfrom two-parent families to foster families - child socialization and peer relationshipsin school and around the community - adolescencegender roles, ethnic and racial diversity, sexual orientation, and adult transitioning - educational needsteacher expectations, special education, diversity, home schooling - and more! The strengths perspective is not always included in traditional child welfare and children’s practice texts, and this textbook fills that gap for working with younger clients. Children in child welfare, educational, mental health, family service, and recreational settings will all benefit from the inclusion of Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth: A Strengths and Well-Being Model in your work. Augmented with case scenarios and studies, empirical findings, and questions for discussion in every chapter, this book will help child service professionals as well as university faculty and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helton, Lonnie R.

Smith, Mieko Kotake

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Strengths and Resilience of Children
The Strengths Perspective
The Strengths of Children
Defining Resiliency
Development of Resiliency
Conceptual Model of Resiliency
Person-Environmental Transaction for the Development of Resiliency
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Henry Lester
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 2. The Care of Children in American Society: Historical Events and Trends
Early Perceptions and Treatment of Children
Nineteenth-Century Efforts for Change
Twentieth-Century Innovations
Child Welfare Practice
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Cynthia Harper
Questions for Discussion

Chapter 3. Children and Family Relationships
Children in Biological Families
Children in Single-Parent Families
Children in Blended Families
Children in Gay and Lesbian Families
Children in Multigenerational Families
Children in Foster Families
Children in Adoptive Families
Children in Residential Settings
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Joanna Brown
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 4. Child Socialization and Peer Relationships
Family Influences on Socialization
School and Peer Relationships
Children in the Community
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Billy Lapahie
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 5. Children and Learning
Teacher Expectations and Learning
Elements of Learning and Achievement
Ethnic and Culturally Different Children
Children and Special Education
Home Schooling: An Educational Alternative
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Hannah Carter
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 6. Self-Concept and Self-Esteem
Self-Esteem and Well-Being
A Case Scenario of Resilience
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Michiko Tanaka
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 7. Adolescence
Adolescent Ethnic and Racial Identity
Gender Roles
Adolescents and Sexual Orientation
Transitions to Adulthood
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Zor Hollis
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 8. Child-Centered Practice Approaches: Emphasis on Strength and Resilience
Guidelines for Interviewing and Assessing Children
Guidelines for Interviewing and Assessing Adolescents
Practice with Children in Child Welfare
School Social Work and Counseling in School
Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Ina Abrams
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 9. Media-Directed, Creative Child Therapies
Play Therapy
Drawing and Art Therapy
Puppet Therapy
Clown Therapy
Bibliotherapy
Music Therapy
Collaboration with Parents
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Helen McGuire
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 10. Evidence-Based Practice and Research for Promoting Children’s Strengths
Introduction
Resilience-Based Programs
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Charles Elliott Maples
Questions for Discussion
Chapter 11. Empowerment of Children in the Global Arena
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
International Adoptions
A Case Scenario of International Adoption
Conclusion
Strengths Story: Antun (Tony) Boskovich
Questions for Discussion
Epilogue
Index
Reference Notes Included

Über Autor(innen)

Helton, Lonnie R.; Smith, Mieko Kotake