For maternal and child health nurses, general practitioners, psychiatrists, child protection workers, educators, and community and mental health workers, Mares, an infant, child, and family
psychiatrist in Australia, et al. detail an evidence-based and practical approach to the mental health assessment of young children and their families in different settings. After discussing
infant development, attachment, principles of assessment, and assessing risk, they cover biomedical problems, issues with sleeping and feeding, emotional and behavioral problems, trauma, gender
development and identity, perinatal mental illness, parents abused as children, those with personality disorder, parenting and substance abuse, adolescent parents, and families with multiple
adversities, with case examples. This edition has two new chapters on intervention and professional issues such as training, ethics, and advocacy. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation
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