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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service - Downloadable Information

For parents and teachers:

1. The restless and excitable young child
2. Good parenting
3. Dealing with tantrums
4. Behavioural problems and conduct disorder
5. ADHD and hyperkinetic disorder
6. Stimulant medication for hyperkinetic disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
7. Sleep problems in childhood and adolescence
8. Children who soil or wet themselves
9. Children who do not go to school
10. The child with general learning disability
11. Specific learning difficulties
12. Understanding autism and Asperger's syndrome
13. Worries and anxieties - helping children to cope
14. Divorce or separation of parents - the impact on children and adolescents
15. Death in the family - helping children to cope
16. Parental mental illness - the problems for children
17. Domestic violence - its effects on children
18. The emotional cost of bullying
19. Child abuse and neglect - the emotional effects
20. Traumatic stress in children - how parents can help
21. Schizophrenia
22. Bipolar affective disorder (manic depression)
23. Obsessive_compulsive disorder in children and young people
24. Eating disorders in young people
25. Suicide and attempted suicide
26. Deliberate self-harm in young people
27. Chronic physical illnesses: the effects on mental health
28. Medically unexplained physical symptoms
29. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): helping your child to get better
30a. Alcohol and drugs: what parents need to know
30b. Information about drugs: what parents need to know
Checklist for parents of children with mental health problems
Surviving Adolescence

For young people:

31. Child and adolescent psychiatrists: how they can help
32. Coping with stress
33. Psychotic illness
34. Depression in children and young people
35. Worries about weight
36. Drugs and alcohol

Note
The information contained in these resources is accurate and well researched. However, it does at times refer to English laws and systems. Please note that Statemented Needs do not exist in Scotland. Any mention of legal provision in these leaflets may still be relevant but should be interpreted under the Additional Support for Learning (Scotland) Act 2004.