• About Paediatric Handbook
• Table of contents
• Part 1 - Emergencies
• Part 2 - Procedures & Pain Management
• Part 3 - Fluids & Nutrition
• Part 4 - Child Public Health
• Part 5 - Development
• Part 6 - Psychosocial Problems
• Part 7 - Medicine and Surgery
• Appendices
• Contact us

Psychosocial problems

Part 6 - Psychosocial Problems

Chapter 16 - Child psychiatry

• Maria McCarthy and Chidambaram Prakash
  • www.nctsnet.org — National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Excellent website containing practical resources for families and healthcare professionals.
  • www.aacap.org — American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Contains useful practice parameters for doctors and information for families.
  • www.nimh.nih.gov [Health & Outreach > Topics > Children & Adolescents] — National Institute of Mental Health in USA with parent information.
  • www.zerotothree.org — Excellent resource for infant mental health in this Washington-based organisation.

Chapter 17 - Child abuse

• Anne Smith and Chris Sanderson
  • www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide [Child Abuse] — RCH Clinical Practice Guidelines. Contains useful guidelines for assessment and management of child abuse.
  • www.vfpms.org.au — Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service (VFPMS). Contains useful relevant literature, educational resources and guidelines.
  • http://www.vfpms.org.au/childrenatrisk/vuln.htm - Online learning resource for professionals dealing with children at risk

Chapter 18 - The death of a child

• Peter McDougall, Jenny Hynson and Maree O'Toole
  • www.rch.org.au/rch_palliative — Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care Program.
  • www.vifm.org — Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.
  • www.nalagvic.org.au — National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG).
  • www.vsk.org.au — Very Special Kids.
  • www.sidsandkids.org — SIDS and Kids (1800 240 400 — 24 h consult). Usually for those affected by the sudden and unexpected death of a child d6 years old, but some rural area services take referrals for children up to 18 years old.
  • www.sandsvic.org.au — Sudden and Neonatal Death Support (SANDS) Victoria.
  • www.health.vic.gov.au/perinatal — Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity. Annual Report for the Year 2005, incorporating the 44th Survey of Perinatal Deaths in Victoria, Melbourne 2007.
  • Fleming P, Blair P, Bacon C, Berry J. Sudden unexpected deaths in infancy: the CESDI SUDI studies 1993—1996. The Stationery Office, London, 2000.
  • Krous HF, Beckwith JB, Byard RW. Sudden infant death syndrome and unclassified sudden infant deaths: a definitional and diagnostic approach. Pediatrics 2004; 114(1); 234—238.