1st Edition
The Biopsychosocial Multiaxial Toolkit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinicians
PART 1: BPS-MXL BACKGROUND AND THEORY
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Classification in Mental Health and Psychiatry
CHAPTER 2: Diagnosis and Symptoms
CHAPTER 3: The History and Advantages of MXL Classification
CHAPTER 4: Age, Sex/Gender, and Developmental Psychopathology
CHAPTER 5: The Individual Axes and Their Relevance to Clinical Practice
PART 2: THE BPS-MXL SYSTEM AND TOOLKIT
INTRODUCTION: The BPS-MXL Toolkit
TOOLKIT 1: The Child and Adolescent Multiaxial Classification System
TOOLKIT 2: Incorporating Additional Information
TOOLKIT 3: Developing a Narrative Impression and Summary
TOOLKIT 4: Hypothesising Pre-Assessment
TOOLKIT 5: Hypothesising Post-Assessment
TOOLKIT 6: Developmental Chronology
TOOLKIT 7: Identifying Gaps in Information/Clinical Patterns
TOOLKIT 8: Planning BPS Interventions
TOOLKIT 9: Evidence-based Clinical Understanding
TOOLKIT 10: Teaching, Training, and Supervision
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: The BPS-MXL Way of Thinking
Biography
Mark Mayall trained in Oxford and at Guy’s Hospital in London. He was an associate medical director in the UK before moving to Australia, as an associate professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at James Cook University. He is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist.
“In The Biopsychosocial Multiaxial Toolkit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinicians the author brings a lifetime of clinical experience to the hugely complex issues of helping children and adolescents with mental health issues. An excellent historical background is followed by a detailed practical toolkit for clinical practice.”
Dr Steve Moss, author of the PAS-ADD & Moss-PAS assessments
