Mental Health Care of Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians

This indispensable resource provides primary care clinicians with a framework for addressing pediatric mental health problems in the primary care practice. It offers guidance on practice enhancements and on clinical care of patients with identified mental health concerns, signs and symptoms, as well as common disorders.Topics Include:

• Integrating preventive mental health care into pediatric practice
• Pediatric care of children and adolescents with mental health problems
• Office and network systems to support mental health care
• Partnering to improve community mental health systems
• Psychosocial therapies
• Triage for psychiatric emergencies
• Use of psychotropic medications in primary care
• Care of children with common mental health concerns, signs and symptoms
• Assessment and care of children with unexplained medical symptoms
• And more…