Working With Child and Adolescent Mental Health : Routledge : 9781032192833 : 1032192836 : 04 Oct 2023 : In children, mental health challenges and communication differences typically combine in complex and inter-related ways. Remarkably, this crucial point is all-too-often forgotten, and communication is overlooked. Services are frequently fragmented, leading professionals to look at children through distinct lenses of either mental health or communication meaning insights can be incomplete and important perspectives unshared. Working with Child and Adolescent Mental Health makes the compelling case that communication is central and should be a primary consideration whenever we think about children's mental health. With a practical focus, and an easy-to-read format, it suggests how this can be achieved by identifying how practitioners and services can work more cohesively to understand and optimise children's communication capacities. This book includes: Practical advice, grounded