Description: This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption. It takes an overall systemic perspective, but the co-authors contribute different theoretical approaches.
Brief description: Miriam Richardson is a Systemic Psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer. She worked with the NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) from 1999 to 2008, initially in a Community Psychotherapy Project, and then as Lead Clinician with a specialist Children Looked After Service. Since leaving CAMHS she has developed an independent practice to include work with Looked After and Adopted children and other young people. She has tutored on the MSc program in Systemic Therapy at the University of Bedfordshire, and the Institute of Family Therapy's Agency Based Training program for social workers, inter alia.