This is an essential read for any student, practitioner or educator who wishes to quickly get to grips with the main contemporary issues in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH). Taking a sociological critical approach, the book has three sections: History & Context, Issues for Practice and Future Concerns, which is then broken down into focused in-depth chapters covering such topics as Risk & Danger, Law, Psychosis, Self-harm and Suicide, Global Perspectives and Neurodiversity. Readers can read start-to-finish for a comprehensive reading experience that builds through successive chapters on important background knowledge, or dip in to chapters most relevant to their work or study. Each chapter looks at current theory and practice, the controversies and debates in that area and includes otherwise more marginal voices and views. While some general texts scope the area, this book takes a symptomatic reading, selecting important issues which are explored with depth.