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Edited by Jo Holmes, Amelia Oldfield
and Marion Polichroniadis
Foreword by Professor Ian Goodyer
The Croft Child and Family Unit is a residential psychiatric unit in Cambridgeshire, UK, that provides intensive assessment and treatment for children with mental health problems and their families. This book describes a multi-disciplinary, multi-family model of care that the Croft team have developed, and offers information and suggestions for all professionals working with children with complex needs.
Using detailed case studies to illustrate the model, this book focuses on the needs of children with a wide range of developmental, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and explores the complicated interactions between these children, their families and their communities. Based on the clinical experiences of working intensively with groups of families the team examines how to integrate multi-disciplinary interventions and how to use the powerful relationships that develop to enable families to achieve positive, lasting changes.
This book will be fascinating reading for trainees and professionals in health and social care and special need educationalists interested in the benefits of an intensive, multi-family approach to working with children and families who do not respond to standard community interventions.
June 2011, ISBN: 978-1-84310-965-5, 256 pages, paperback,
£24.99 / US$39.95.
