Mental Health of Children and Adolescents (eBook)

Helmut Remschmidt, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Phillips University, Marburg, Germany Barry Nurcombe, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Queensland, Australia Myron L. Belfer, MD, MPA, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA Norman Sartorius, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland Ahmed Okasha, MD, Professor and Director, WHO Collaborating Center, Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

List of Contributors

Advisory Board

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 A Global Programme for Child and Adolescent Mental Health:
A Challenge in the New Millennium (Myron Belfer, Helmut
Remschmidt, Barry Nurcombe, Ahmed Okasha, and Norman
Sartorius).

2 Public Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A
Review of the Literature (Sam Tyano and Anat
Fleischman).

3 The Epidemiology and Burden of Child and Adolescent Mental
Disorder (Myron Belfer and Barry Nurcombe).

4 Disseminating Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatment
Methods: An International Feasibility Study (Jose J.
Baumeister, John Fayyad, Richard Harrington (deceased), Jack (S.F.)
Hung, Kimberly Hoagwood, Peter Jensen, Kelly Kelleher, Laura
Murray, Cheryl So; and site directors Alan Apter and Orit Krispin
(Tel Aviv, Israel), John Fayyad, MD (Lebanon), Luis Rhode and Paulo
Knapp (Porto Alegre, Brazil), and Amira Seif El Din (Alexandria,
Egypt)).

5 Prevention of Mental Health Disorders in Children and
Adolescents

5.1 The Principles of Prevention in Child and
Adolescent Mental Health (Barry Nurcombe).

5.2 Evidence-based Primary Prevention Programs for the
Promotion of Mental Health in Children and Adolescents: A
Systematic Worldwide Review (Martine F. Flament, Hien
Nguyen, Howard Schachter, Claudia Furino, Cathy Cuzner, Danuta
Wasserman, Norman Sartorius, and Helmut Remschmidt).

5.3 Violence and Trauma: Evidence-based Assessment and
Intervention in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review
(Ernesto Caffo and Carlotta Belaise).

5.4 School Dropout: A Systematic Worldwide Review
Concerning Risk Factors and Preventive Interventions (Ana
Soledade Graeff-Martins, Tatyana Dmitrieva, Amira Seif El Din,
Ernesto Caffo, Martine F. Flament, Barry Nurcombe, Per-Anders
Rydelius, Helmut Remschmidt, and Luis Augusto Rhode).

5.5 School Violence: Epidemiology, Background,
and Prevention (Helmut Remschmidt).

6 Preventive Interventions in School Dropout: Three Field
Studies

6.1 A Comprehensive Intervention for the Prevention of School
Dropout in Brazil (Ana Soledade Graeff-Martins, Sylvia
Oswald, Júlia Obst Comassetto, Christian Kieling, Renata Rocha
Gonçalves, and Luis Augusto Rhode).

6.2A Comprehensive Program for the Prevention of
Dropout in an Egyptian Public School (Amira Seif El Din, M.
Azzer, and Doa Habib).

6.3 A Comprehensive Intervention to Prevent School
Dropout and

Reduce School Absenteeism in a Public School in a Russian
Industrial City (V. Andreyuk, A. Zanozin, and Tatjana
Dmitrieva).

Index.