ACQ_Vol_11_no_3_2009

Mental health

From the editors Nicole Watts Pappas and Marleen Westerveld

Contents

129 From the Editors 130 From the President: Musing on mental health 131 Introduction: Andrea Murray 132 Communication impairments and behaviour problems in children and adolescents: A review of the literature – Dean Sutherland, Brigid McNeill, and Gail Gillon 136 Art therapy in mental health practice: Application in a multidisciplinary day program for young people with severe mental health problems – Sandra Drabant, Maggie Wilson, and Robert King 141 Selective mutism or selective deafness? – Debbie Plastow 144 Communication and childhood complex trauma: An evaluation of speech pathology consultation liaison and assessment services to a complex trauma treatment team – Julie Ball and Ferhana Khan 149 Differentiating between childhood communication disorders: Implications for language and psychosocial outcomes – Andrew Whitehouse 152 Clinical insights: The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic (ADOS-G): A clinical referral pathway for young people suspected of pervasive developmental disorders at a mental health clinic – Nickolina Aloizos 155 Webwords 35: Wednesday’s child – Caroline Bowen 157 Exploring the need for the speech pathologist in forensic and mental health settings – Laura Caire 160 Clinical insights: Kool Kids Positive Parents: A school- based early intervention and prevention program for children with challenging behaviour and emerging conduct disorder – Suzanne Lim 163 To tube or not to tube: Who can ethically answer that question? – Helen Smith and Noel Muller 165 Clinical insights: A good start to attachment: The Story Telling and Rhyme Time (START) group – Lisa Dyer 167 My journey into relationship-based practice – Kristy Collins 169 A national snapshot of clinical placements in Australia – Heads of Speech Pathology Programs and Speech Pathology Australia 171 Adolescent mental health versus child development: A new graduate’s perspective of working within these settings – Shannon Walsh 172 The clinical education experience in Child and Mental Health Service – Melissa Saliba and Carly Littlewood 173 A consumer speaks: “Tammy” 175 My top 10 resources: Infant, child, and adolescent mental health services – Andrea Murray 177 Burnout in clinicians – Deborah Perrott 178 Research updates Mental health and stuttering – Lisa Iverach The Toddlers Without Tears study – Jordana Bayer 180 Around the journals 182 Outside the square: Speech pathologist to mental health clinician in paediatric oncology – Diana Russo 184 Resource reviews

Nicole Watts Pappas (left) and Marleen Westerveld

When ACQ committee member Andrea Murray proposed the idea of a mental health special issue of ACQ we initially wondered whether this topic would be of interest to the broad range of speech pathologists that make up our readership. However, as many of the articles in this edition demonstrate, the role of the speech pathologist in mental health is something we all need to be aware of. For example, Dean Sutherland and colleagues discuss the important links between behaviour problems and language impairment in children and adolescents, whereas Julie Ball and Ferhana Khan discuss the speech pathologists’ role in the care of children who have experienced trauma. Other articles describe working with children with selective mutism, speech pathologists’ involvement in intervention for children with behavioural difficulties, and the importance of fostering mother–infant attachment. In an interesting article, Sandra Drabrant and her colleagues describe the role of the art therapist in working with clients with mental health concerns. Our regular columns are here too, including a poignant Webwords in which Caroline Bowen recalls her own experiences of the impact of the mental health of a client’s family on speech pathology practice, and the research updates column which reports on current research being conducted into the mental health of adults who stutter. Andrea and her colleagues in mental health have done a wonderful job in helping to bring this issue together, demonstrating the expertise of speech pathologists working in a variety of roles in mental health across the country. Many thanks to all of them and we hope this edition of ACQ highlights ways in which you may further the role of speech pathology in mental health. As always we welcome feedback from our readers about the journal. Please feel free to email us at nwattspappas@hotmail.com or m.westerveld@gmail.com. Electronic copies of ACQ Speech Pathology Australia members are able to access past and present issues of ACQ via the Speech Pathology Australia website. www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au Hard copies are available to everyone (members and non members) at a cost by emailing pubs@speechpathologyaustralia.org.au.

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