Full Description
This is a practical guide for clinicians to enhance their understanding of using a biopsychosocial approach to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in child and adolescent mental health.
This book provides clinicians with a toolkit which aids and assists all the way from first referral through differential diagnosis to planning of evidence-based interventions and treatments. It also helps with efficient, clear, and concise communication between clinicians. The biopsychosocial multiaxial (BPS-MXL) system combines a biopsychosocial approach along with the clarity and rigor of the internationally developed system of classification of mental health disorders. This allows for clarity in diagnosis and for more coherent and comprehensive treatment approaches for busy healthcare professionals.
Packed with background, theory, and illustrative cases, The Biopsychosocial Multiaxial Toolkit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinicians is a must for clinicians striving for evidence-based, patient-centred interventions, from those clinicians starting out in this field to the experienced clinician, who will find the BPS-MXL system helpful in practice and in teaching, training, and supervision.
Contents
PART 1: BPS-MXL BACKGROUND AND THEORY
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Classification in Mental Health and Psychiatry
CHAPTER 2: Diagnosis and Symptoms
CHAPTER 3: The History and Advantages of MXL Classification
CHAPTER 4: Age, Sex/Gender and Developmental Psychopathology
CHAPTER 5: The Individual Axes and Their Relevance to Clinical Practice
PART 2: THE BPS-MXL SYSTEM AND TOOLKIT
INTRODUCTION: The BPS-MXL Toolkit
TOOLKIT 1: The Child and Adolescent Multiaxial Classification System
TOOLKIT 2: Incorporating Additional Information
TOOLKIT 3: Developing a Narrative Impression and Summary
TOOLKIT 4: Hypothesising Pre-Assessment
TOOLKIT 5: Hypothesising Post-Assessment
TOOLKIT 6: Developmental Chronology
TOOLKIT 7: Identifying Gaps in Information/Clinical Patterns
TOOLKIT 8: Planning BPS Interventions
TOOLKIT 9: Evidence Based Clinical Understanding
TOOLKIT 10: Teaching, Training and Supervision
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: The BPS-MXL Way of Thinking
