Developing Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents with Learning Disabilities

About the editors:Sarah Bernard is consultant psychiatrist for children and adolescents with learning disability at the Michael Rutter Centre, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.Jeremy Turk is Professor of Developmental Psychiatry at St. George’s, University of London, and Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist in the South West London & St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust where he is Clinical Team Leader on the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Learning Disability Service.Quote from the editors: "Our vision is to equip child and adolescent mental health clinicians and managers to enable them to make their services as accessible, appropriate and useful as possible for children and young people with learning disabilties and their families."

• Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Epidemiological overview; 2. Multidisciplinary mental health assessment; 3. Clinical psychology; 4. Speech and language therapy; 5. Occupational therapy; 6. Nursing; 7. The social work contribution; 8. Medical; 9. Multi-agency working; 10. Working in partnership with families; 11. Service tiers and models.