A journal for all professionals working with children and young people
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Published on behalf of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Edited by:
Jacqueline Barnes,Tamsin Ford and Crispin Day
Child and Adolescent Mental Health provides a forum for the exchange of clinical experience, ideas and research. Its principal aim is to foster good clinical practice. Wide-ranging in its coverage, CAMH includes studies of new theoretical developments, clinical case studies, descriptions of innovative techniques and new service developments.
CAMH is of interest to clinical and developmental psychologists, child psychiatrists, child psychotherapists, primary mental health workers, social workers, paediatricians, teachers and lecturers, and members of multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health services.
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Must Read Child and Adolescent Mental Health Articles from 2008 - all freely available online:
Children's and Young People's Involvement and Participation in Mental Health Care (Volume 13, Issue 1 - February 2008)
Crispin Day
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: Data from the Present and a Model for the Future (Volume 13, Issue 2 - May 2008)
John R. Weisz & Jane Simpson Gray
Towards a Metamorphosis: Current Developments in the Theory and Practice of Family Therapy (Volume 13, Issue 3 - September 2008)
Mark Rivett
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Children and Parents (Volume 13, Issue 4 - November 2008)
Judith A. Cohen & Anthony P. Mannarino
Children's Voices: A Review of Literature Pertinent to Looked After Children's Views of Mental Health Services (Volume 13, Issue 1 - February 2008)
Julie Davies & John Wright
Evaluation of Screening in Children Referred for an ADHD Assessment (Volume 13, Issue 1 - February 2008)
Kapil Sayal, Nicole Letch & Samaa El Abd
The Assessment of Juvenile Psychopathy: Strengths and Weaknesses of Currently Used Questionnaire Measures (Volume 13, Issue 2 - May 2008)
Carla Sharp & Sarah Kine
Schools: Central to Providing Comprehensive CAMH Services in the Future? (Volume 13, Issue 3 - September 2008)
Gill Salmon & Amanda Kirby
Five Years On: Public Sector Service Use Related to Mental Health in Young People with ADHD or Hyperkinetic Disorder Five Years After Diagnosis (Volume 13, Issue 3 - September 2008)
Tamsin Ford, Tom Fowler, Kate Langley, Naureen Whittinger & Anita Thapar
A Preliminary Community Study of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) with Adolescent Females Demonstrating Persistent, Deliberate Self-Harm (DSH) (Volume 13, Issue 3 - September 2008)
Anthony C. James, Annie Taylor, Louise Winmill & Kielly Alfoadari
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'Child Psychology & Psychiatry Review has much to recommend it. There are a number of interesting sections not found in other similar journals; and the journal's interdisciplinary nature, giving equal coverage to both applied and research aspects of child psychology and psychiatry, is both welcome and refreshing.'
Janine Spencer, Times Higher Educational Supplement
'The articles are a mix of down-to-earth accounts of clinical practice and of up-to-date descriptions of theories on this or that aspect of childhood. They are all written clearly and with an attractive simplicity ... The editors of this new journal are providing busy practitioners with an entertaining but intellectually respectable account of current research.'
Peter Bryant, Nature
