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The ChA-PAS Interview Handbook and Clinical Interview

Since the early 1990s the PAS-ADD tools have been increasingly used for the assessment of mental health problems in adults with intellectual disability (ID), and are now widely used throughout the world. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment Schedule (ChA-PAS Interview), is designed for use with children and adolescents, both in the normal range and those with ID.

The basic format is developed from the Mini PAS-ADD, which is specifically designed to improve the quality of information from informants. This latter instrument has received a lot of attention, partly because of its high reliability, and partly because it can be used by people who are not psychiatrists or psychologists.

Like the Mini PAS-ADD, the ChA-PAS is a semi-structured clinical interview linked to a clinical glossary that guides the ratings. The ChA-PAS has, however, been extended to include ADHD and Conduct Disorder, as well as axis I psychiatric disorders. It also includes a screen for autistic spectrum disorders, using items provided by Prof. Michael Rutter. A further enhancement is that it enables two different informants to be interviewed, enabling a direct comparison to be made of their views. This is of course vital, particularly if ADHD or conduct disorder is to be diagnosed.

Although the primary focus of the ChA-PAS is on informants, clinicians can also include responses from the children themselves, and there is a provision on the score form to evaluate the level of their contribution.

The ChA-PAS Interview covers the following disorders:
• psychosis
• manic episode
• depressive episode
• anxiety disorder
• obsessive compulsive disorder
• conduct disorder
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• autistic spectrum (screening only).

The Moss Psychiatric Assessment Schedules (Moss-PAS) are the successors to this well-known PAS-ADD system. Click here to purchase the updated system.

Moss-PAS (ChA) Interview Score Form

The Moss-PAS (ChA) Interview Score Forms are intended to be used for recording the ratings and other details of the MPAS-ChA Handbook.

The Score Form enables two different clinical episodes to be rated on the same form. This is important if the person has a fluctuating mood disorder, or if it is otherwise suspected that the individual has changed significantly from one time period to another.

This score form must be completed in conjunction with the The Moss-PAS (ChA), and the accompanying glossary.

The Moss-PAS (ChA) and the Moss-PAS (ChA) Interview Score Forms (Formerly known as The ChA-PAS Interview) have both been fully revised and are now compliant with both ICD-11 and DSM-5.

The Compassionate Community

The Compassionate Community is a resource pack offering a positive, inspiring and spirit-raising new vision for care homes.

Frameworks 4 Change’s definition of compassion:

‘Where kindness meets suffering and we are encouraged to flourish.’

Andy Bradley, Frameworks 4 Change.

This manual is designed to shift the mentality of those who work in care and nursing homes in order to emphasise a more compassionate way of caring for both the residents of the home and the staff who work there. This involves first learning to develop a sense of self-compassion, and then allowing this to permeate to all aspects of the home.

Part of the training contained is designed for managers, to alter their approach to their work and their teams, to make them more compassionate ‘bosses’, more self-compassionate and more able to build a lasting culture of care that will remain when they have moved into a different role elsewhere.

The second part of the training is designed to be run with staff members, to enhance their compassion and the quality of the care they provide.

It is therefore both a ‘self-help’ manual in one sense, and a training guide for staff development.

The Diploma in Child Health Volume 1 – POD

Cover of the book - The Diploma in Child Health Volume 1 - A practical study guide

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s (RCPCH) Diploma in Child Health is intended to recognise a doctor’s special knowledge and experience in the medical care of children, and to contribute to their continued professional development.

This practical study guide, written by a member of the RCPCH and a senior examiner for the diploma, is essential reading for anyone taking the examination and provide advice and step-by-step guidance to steer postgraduate trainees towards success.

Also available: Volume 2.

The Diploma in Child Health Volume 2

Prepare for the Child Health Volume 2 exam with our expert study guide. Driven by RCPCH standards, an essential reading for anyone taking the examination and provide advice and step-by-step guidance to steer postgraduate trainees towards success.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s (RCPCH) Diploma in Child Health is intended to recognise a doctor’s special knowledge and experience in the medical care of children, and to contribute to their continued professional development.

The Family Model Handbook

The Family Model was a core component of the Crossing Bridges programme, and its aim was to aid a greater understanding of the complex interplay between mental ill health in parents, the development and mental health of their children, and the relationships within family units affected by mental ill health.

The model has proved extremely durable, and in this handbook the Family Model has been extensively revised and refined in the light of developments in the field over the last 10 years. Many features have been retained whilst enhancements have been added to ensure contemporary relevance in an ever-growing field. This enhanced Family Model provides the conceptual framework to support clinical approaches to family focused practice.

Additional principles have been added, including a service dimension to ensure that service provision is explicitly incorporated into thinking and practice, and a culture and community component to ensure that broader factors influencing individuals and impacting on family life are also addressed.

The Family Model: An integrated approach to supporting mentally ill parents and their children comes with a fully interactive CD-ROM to aid a greater understanding of the Family Model and to explain in a visually engaging way the principles of this approach to working with families affected by mental ill health.

Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond

Reflections on the Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond is a personal journey through British psychiatry, the NHS and academic life for over 40 years. It describes personal experience as perceived by a postgraduate student, practicing clinician, teacher, trainer, researcher and health service manager.

This book presents a personal historical chronicle and a panoramic view of some of the most significant milestones of modern psychiatry. The process of developing mental health services including those for people with intellectual disabilities through a maze of policies, sometimes contradictory, but also with strong ideological, sociological and political encounters proved to be a foremost challenge.

The author examines the complex connections of these processes and he succeeds in giving a comprehensive picture of the mental health map in over four decades. Successes and disappointments are featured throughout Reflections and Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond through memories, archives and personal statements.

‘Intellectual autobiographies contribute greatly to historical understanding. Good ones are also pleasurable to read. Reflections and Challenges of Psychiatry in the UK and Beyond captures a period of change in psychiatry. The great and the good are depicted strutting on the metropolitan stage showing the rest of us how things psychiatric should be done. Natural modesty has impeded Professor Nick Bouras from talking about the crucial role he himself played in the changes he describes.’

(Professor G.E. Berrios, Cambridge University)

‘There have been dramatic changes in the way mental health services are delivered in England over recent decades. Professor Nick Bouras gives a personal account of the obstacles and challenges he faced in developing, researching and implementing these; in particular in the field of intellectual disabilities. He records the successes and frustrations of working in a system that does not always have a shared vision. His tenacity and enthusiasm is an example to us all and will encourage and inspire those facing similar issues today.’

(Dr Geraldine Holt, Consultant Psychiatrist in Learning Disabilities, London)

‘An important study of a much neglected field, this exploration of the psychiatry of intellectual disabilities is revealing not only as a personal history but also as an analysis of its clinical development, research challenges and its place in the politics of health. Professor Nick Bouras is particularly well qualified to provide this insightful and evocative account.’

(Professor Edgar Jones, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London)

Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health

Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health: A handbook for frontline caregivers working with women with perinatal mental health difficulties is an accessible handbook that is intended to support midwives, health visitors, community workers and frontline healthcare providers in their detection and assessment of postnatal depression and maternal mental health.

Midwives, health visitors, community workers and frontline healthcare providers for pregnant women, and mothers and babies in the first postnatal year, require better information on the kinds of help that women need, and resources they can use to support discussions about difficult and complex feelings.

It will provide readers with a good understanding of postnatal depression and the range of perinatal mental health difficulties they may come across in universal services for mental illness in pregnant and postnatal women. The handbook will support them in their detection and assessment of these difficulties in the women on their caseload.

Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health will enable you to:

Identify and assess postnatal depression in mothers
Facilitate sensitive conversations about mental health with more confidence
Provide early support to both mother and baby to reduce the need for future professional intervention
Progress your CPD accreditation.

Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Work Volume 2

Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Work Volume 2 is the second volume in a series that explores the mental health of parents and its impact on child welfare. It acts as a yearly update on key research, policy developments and practice innovations, both in the UK and around the world.

This publication is a unique opportunity to explore and share ideas about ‘success’ and what ‘leads to success’ from the different perspective of parents, children and the professionals who work with them. Much like its predecessor, it draws together a range of experts in the field – researchers, policy makers, practitioners and service users – to identify both the opportunities and challenges, as well as to explore what works in which contexts, for whom and why.

Mental Health Today… and Tomorrow

Mental Health Today … and Tomorrow: Exploring current and future trends in mental health is a forward thinking, multi-author handbook. It examines a range of current key issues in the field of mental health, whilst also looking to the future – where things are heading and where we want them to go.

Mental Health Today… and Tomorrow provides a comparative view of how things are done around the UK and beyond, explores the role of language used in mental health care and the use of technology, and offers some predictions for the future of services.

This handbook explores the whole lifespan, with chapters examining early interventions and mental health and wellbeing within school settings, mental health in the workplace, and finally the issues faced as people enter later life.

Mental Health Today… and Tomorrow has been written in partnership with the Mental Health Foundation.