Mental Health Screening and Monitoring for Children in Care : A Short Guide for Children-s Agencies and Post-Adoption Se

This is a short and authoritative guide for children's agencies and post-adoption services about why and how they should carry out mental health screening and monitoring for children in care, and those adopted from care. It defines key terms, reviews and compares screening, brief assessment and monitoring measures, and suggests protocols for delivering screening and monitoring. Written by a world-leading expert on the mental health of children in care, this jargon-free book will be invaluable for professionals without clinical mental health training who are working with children in care or adopted from care.