Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Coping with Adversity 287 Family size and birth order Family size and birth order can be measured so easily and reliably that th ...

288 Chapter 34 experience multiple adversities. Once children face three or four stresses or risk factors, the rate of poor outc ...

Coping with Adversity 289 Mechanisms A rather diverse list of adversities has been given above. It is now worth considering what ...

290 Chapter 34 aggressive response by themselves will achieve their goal. They are poorer at generating solutions to hypothetica ...

Coping with Adversity 291 Sandberg S, Rutter M. (2008) Acute life stresses. In: Rutter Met al. (eds)Rutter’s Child and Adolescen ...

CHAPTER 35 School and Peer Factors Though family life undoubtedly has a powerful influence on many aspects of development, it is ...

School and Peer Factors 293 are supposed to be supervised at school, most bullying goes unrecognised by teachers, and the victim ...

294 Chapter 35 controlling for behavioural and depressive symptoms; whereas in females early victimisation did predict later sui ...

School and Peer Factors 295 and disruptive behaviours, loneliness, misery and academic difficulties. In the longer term, rejecte ...

296 Chapter 35 disadvantaged in terms of their mental health. Thus, one large study showed that the average rate of emotional an ...

School and Peer Factors 297 Further reading Bowes Let al. (2009) School, neighborhood, and family factors are asso- ciated with ...

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CHAPTER 36 Intervention: First Principles Parents, children and adolescents come to mental health services for a variety of reas ...

302 Chapter 36 more constructive to have said that their child is indeed strong-willed and can behave in an antisocial way at ti ...

Intervention: First Principles 303 Symptoms and social impairments both need to be addressed Treatment is unlikely to be effecti ...

304 Chapter 36 the external contingencies around the child’s behaviour, for example, parent training programmes, behavioural th ...

Intervention: First Principles 305 long-term outcome. Other plausible interventions have also been shown to have little or no ef ...

306 Chapter 36 significant given a large enough trial or meta-analysis. There are several ways of measuring how effective a trea ...