Mental Health Care of Children and Adolescents

This indispensable resource provides vital guidance for integrating mental health care into your primary care practice. Learn from leading experts the latest information on enhancements to the medical home and on the care of children and adolescents with mental health symptoms that do not rise to the threshold for a diagnosis, as well as those that do.

Topics covered include: Assessing and monitoring children's mental health in primary careTriage for psychiatric emergenciesTechniques for engaging patients and families resistant to mental health care or behavior changeCare of children with common mental health signs and symptomsUse of psychotropic medications in primary careAssessment and care of children with unexplained medical symptomsAddressing non-adherence to medical treatment