Child and Adolescent Mental Health

This book is a personal and professional journey of understanding mental health concerns of children and adolescents. Here, psychologists, psychoanalysts, medical professionals, educationists, social work professionals, sociologists, economists, media specialists, and child activists weave their knowledge around the development of children in contemporary society.

Children and adolescents have evolving capacities. They have competencies and perceptions different from adults when faced with the same situations or are placed in the same context; children and adolescents are not homogeneous.

The book takes into account that the everyday experiences and challenges of the current generation of children and adolescents are not just different, but at times even contrary to those of their parents and grandparents. Social interactions and negotiations of children and adolescents with members of their families, peers, neighborhood, teachers, and society are unique in this 21st century-a consequence of inhabiting a multicultural society, being active participants in an information and communication technology revolution, and entitled to age-appropriate rights as per the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.