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11 September 2001 - how are children feeling?
Children's Express
The YoungMinds Magazine invited Children's Express to analyse how young people are making sense of the terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001. The article contains 3 different sections written by 3 young people aged 13.
Listen with mother - a son's story
Gerard Woodward
The author describes his early life and his relationship with his mother. Whilst the piece describes his mother's mental health problems, and glue sniffing addiction, he also describes the positive influence his mother had on him.
Mission possible 1 - learning through innovation
Cathy James
In the first of two articles about the 24 CAMHS Innovation Projects, the author describes the work of five of these projects. The article discusses the difficulties the projects faced. For instance, how the projects had to overcome cultural and organisational barriers between health, social care and education. Plus, how the development of these projects has added to the evidence base.
Safe and sound
Jason Lever
This article states that much of recent Government policy on local crime reduction has been on preventing youth crime. However, the author argues that crime and reduction policies are failing to address children's vulnerability to becoming victims of crime.
War and attachment - a theoretical perspective
Peter Fonagy and Mary Target
The authors discuss the impact of trauma on children and the importance of secure attachment to help them cope. The article includes a case study of a young boy who was insecurely attached to his mother and was living in New York at the time of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
Opinion: Time to go back to school
Bruce Stevenson
The author discusses how professionals need to view troublesome pupils holistically in order to help them engage with education.
Review: 'A life's work', 'Misconceptions' and '9 women, 9 months, 9 lives'
Amanda Edwards
Three books on motherhood ... the process of becoming a mother and how traumatic it might be, and how maternal feelings aren't always automatic.
Review: All families are psychotic
Richard Hanks
The plot covers a manic week in which the dysfunctional Drummond family reconvene in Florida to witness prodigal one-armed daughter Sarah's shuttle mission, and HIV in the family.
Review: Angelhead
Dr Elaine Healy
This book documents the insidious development of paranoid schizophrenia in American teenager Michael, and the impact of his deterioration on his aspiring middle class family.
Review: Cherry
Catherine Gough
Autobiography of adolescence in the 1960's of depression and drug abuse, her mother's own depression and trying to fit in with the crowd.
Review: Comparative treatments of eating disorders
John F. Morgan
Carers and mental health professionals need to employ a vast array of skills to help people with eating disorders... this book is welcome in providing individualised descriptions of a variety of treatment approaches...
Review: Crooked angels
Julia Fabricius
The author found ways to preserve herself in the face of the traumas of her youth, but at considerable cost. In adulthood her body suffers the breakdown her mind could not afford to have. The book traces the author's search for a cure.
Review: Heavier than heaven - the biography of Kurt Cobain
Paula Lavis
Charles R. Cross's biography of pop icon Kurt Cobain is no literary masterpiece, but it is compelling reading. In many respects, this is a depressingly familiar story, you can count the risk factors (Divorce, abuse, Domestic violence...
Review: Innovations in play therapy - issues, process and special populations
Jo Carroll
I was disappointed that many of the papers in this book return to familiar material... Nevertheless, there are issues in this book that certainly merit the attention given to them.
Review: My mum's going to explode!
Richard Meier
This funny, informative and highly readable book deftly addresses the subject of a ten-year-old boy's anxieties about the arrival of a new member of the family.
Review: Occupational therapy for child and adolescent mental health
Louise Nicholl
This book is a welcome introduction to occupational therapy in child and adolescent mental heath services... This is the first book soley to cater to occupational therapy in this area.
Review: Out of the shadows
Annabel Mcleod
This book centres mainly on the relationship between three Australian teenagers. They are all trying to cope with personal family problems (abuse, homosexuality, bereavement and parental alcoholism) which they keep secret from each other through fear of rejection.
Review: Self abuse - love, loss and fatherhood
Imogen Le Patourel
Self abuse is an immensely readable account of one mans relationship with his father and with his sons.
Review: The heart of darkness is deceitful above all things
Helen Ward
This episodic collection of autobiographical writings tells the authors story of being passed around from foster parents to social workers, and who eventually lives with his mother where he is abused.
Review: You don't know me, and Stargirl
Geraldine Brennan
'You Don't Know Me' is about an isolated abused boy, taking place in a small town American high school. 'Stargirl' about a girl who is different to those around her. It encourages readers to examine their own attitudes to weird or different behaviour.
Webwatch: Coping with 11th September
Paula Lavis
This column contains links to websites that contain useful information for parents and professionals involved with young people who have experienced trauma. It was written in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York on the 11th September, but are relevant to other traumatic situations.
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