Psychiatric Inpatient Care of Children and Adolescents

Deals with inpatient treatment and the care of child and adolescent psychiatric patients. The orientation of the entire book is toward multicultural considerations and seeks to sensitize the psychiatric worker to cultural and ethnic variations in background, familial characteristics and cultural expectations. It also shows how to effectively integrate this into treatment programs. This unique work is written and edited by experienced practitioners in inpatient psychiatric treatment and the multicultural approach to child and adolescent psychiatric disorders.

Partial table of contents: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS. A Philosophy of Inpatient Care (R. Hendren & I. Berlin). Culturally Responsive Inpatient Care of Children and Adolescents (L. Vargas & I. Berlin). PRETREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS. Determining the Need for Inpatient Treatment (R. Hendren). Effective Treatment Planning (I. Berlin & R. Hendren). TREATMENT MODALITIES AND ISSUES. Integrating Interdisciplinary Team-Centered Treatment (D. Kerlinsky). Working with Resistance in Families: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (N. Porter & S. Blackwell). Short-Term Psychiatric Hospitalization of Children and Adolescents (L. Ponton). The Therapeutic Matrix in the Inpatient Treatment of the Adolescent (E. Anthony). Multicultural Issues in the Milieu Treatment of Violent Children and Adolescents (I. Berlin). PROFESSIONAL ISSUES. Nursing2s Contributions to a Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment Milieu for Children and Adolescents (D. Critchley). Evaluating Outcome in a Multicultural Inpatient Setting (L. Vargas). CONCLUSION. Current Issues and Future Directions for the Psychiatric Hospitalization of Children and Adolescents (R. Hendren & I. Berlin). Author Index. Subject Index.