A professional handbook on promoting positive mental health in children and young people through prevention and early intervention programmes. Written by experts in their field, this concise and authoritative guide envisages a new model for mental health care, promoting emotional resilience and psychological well-being throughout a child's life.

1. Risk factors, protective factors and resilience: how we can nurture psychological wellbeing in children and young people - Julia Faulconbridge, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Nottingham, Katie Hunt, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Nottingham Amanda Laffan, Bath Specialist Paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) Service, and Duncan Law, Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families, London, with Iyabo Fatimilehin, Just Psychology CIC, Manchester; 2. Working psychologically with infants, parents and families in the perinatal period - Ruth Butterworth, Cheshire and Mersey Specialist Perinatal Service, Manchester, Ruth O'Shaughnessy, Fresh CAMHS, Alder Hey Children's NHSFT, Liverpool, and Michael Galbraith, Liverpool Parent Infant Partnership; 3. Building sustainable parent interventions in Early Years - Caroline White, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; 4. Enhancing effective psychological care for families in Primary Care and Community Child Health: Opportunities for integration - Jaime Craig, Family Psychology Services Ltd, Liverpool; 5. Promoting psychological health and early intervention in schools - Joe Hickey, Islington CAMHS, London, Anna Picciotto, Community CAMH, London, Waveney Patel, City and Hackney CAMHS, London and Katie Hunt; 6. Promoting the psychological health of children and young people in hospital and with long term physical health conditions: evidence, theory & practice of effective integrated care - Sara O'Curry and Sally Benson, Paediatric Psychology and Counselling Service, Cambridge; 7. Creating change that works for vulnerable families: effective psychological services for children, young people and families involved with youth justice and social care - Jenny Taylor and Lisa Shostak, Clinical Psychologist, London; 8. People in their whole context: promoting social justice and community psychology as a means to prevent psychological distress and improve wellbeing for children, young people and their families - Laura Casale, Natalie Seymour, Mark Chentite and Sally Zlotowitz, MAC-UK, London; 9. Visions for the future - Julia Faulconbridge, Katie Hunt, Amanda Laffan and Duncan Law