The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care: The New Community Psychiatry

The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care is a groundbreaking volume that presents the latest thinking in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry written by a stellar panel of child and adolescent psychiatrists. The Handbook shows that the best way to help at-risk children is not in isolated doctor and patient treatment rooms but with community-based systems of care (SOC) that incorporate an interagency integration of services based on a client-centered and family empowering orientation. This important resource offers psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, pediatricians, nurses, educators, lawyers and judges, politicians, child advocates, parents, and families a guide to this dynamic new theory and practice. Comprehensive in scope, The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care includes vital information on a wide variety of topics including

• Developmental and cognitive psychology in systems of care (SOCs)
• Social sciences, neurobiology, and prevention in SOC
• The best way to use psychopharmacology
• Family- and community-based interventions
• Culturally diverse populations
• Youth in juvenile justice and child welfare, school-based services
• Partnerships among parents, consumers, and clinicians

Andres J. Pumariega is professor and director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University. He is founding former cochair of the Work Group on Systems of Care of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and the author or coauthor of more than ninety scientific articles, chapters, and monographs on a wide variety of topics including child mental health and cultural competence. He is the coeditor (with Hubert B. Vance) of Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Behavior (John Wiley & Sons, 2001).

Nancy C. Winters is assistant professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program, at the Oregon Health and Science University. She is the current cochair of the Work Group on Systems of Care of the AACAP.