Many children with mental health problems do not receive support and there are often extensive waiting lists for Children and Young People's Mental Health Services, which are increasingly overstretched. Unfortunately, a large proportion of children with mental health disorders do not access evidence-based treatment. Low-intensity psychological interventions are now recommended by a number of national guidelines and in the UK, are being implemented by a new workforce of Child Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs).
The Oxford Guide to Brief and Low Intensity Interventions for Children and Young People provides a comprehensive resource for therapists, services and training providers regarding the use, delivery, and implementation of brief and low intensity psychological interventions within a child and adolescent context. It includes concise, focused chapters from leading experts in the field, combining the most up-to-date research with practical considerations regarding the delivery of low intensity interventions.
The first of its kind, this book will be an indispensable resource for practitioners, services, and training courses internationally.
Sophie Bennett, Senior Research Fellow, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Pamela Myles-Hooton, Director, Bespoke Mental Health, Jessica Schleider, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Roz Shafran, Professor of Translational Psychology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.
Dr Sophie Bennett is a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Honorary Clinical Psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. She has a doctorate in clinical psychology from UCL, UK and a PhD in the mental health of children with epilepsy from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Her current research and clinical practice focus on increasing access to evidence-based assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioural difficulties in children and young people, and specifically those who also have a physical health condition.
Pamela Myles-Hooton is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). She is experienced in developing and delivering training programmes in evidence-based psychological interventions for adults, and children and young people, particularly low intensity CBT interventions. She has contributed to low and high intensity national guidance and curricula for both adults and children. She is an accreditation officer for the BABCP focusing on applications from evidence-based parent training practitioners and sits on the British Psychological Society's low intensity CBT course accreditation committee.
Dr. Jessica L. Schleider is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University http: //www.harvard.edu/ in 2018, along with an APA-accredited Doctoral Internship at Yale School of Medicine http: //medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/psychology/. Her research on single-session and scalable interventions for youth depression and anxiety has been recognized via numerous awards, including the ?NIH Director's Early Independence Award; the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies' President's New Researcher Award; and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology's Abidin Early Career Award. In 2020, she was chosen as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 https: //www.forbes.com/profile/jessica-schleider/?list=30under30-healthcare in Healthcare.
Professor Roz Shafran is Professor of Translational Psychology at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. Her research interests include improving access to evidence-based psychological treatments as well as the dissemination and implementation of those interventions across the age range. She has particular expertise in obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, eating disorders and perfectionism. Her current role is focused on developing and evaluating psychological interventions for children and young people with common mental health disorders in the context of chronic illness. She has over 250 research publications.
