This book focuses on what skills nurses have which are actually valued and needed by children and young people with mental health problems. Whilst other books have focused on conditions, how they affect children and young people, and the treatments which can help, this book moves away from the formulaic pathway approach which has become popular in recent years and looks at what children and young people themselves have said they most value from those who seek to help them across the healthcare and other professions, and looks at why nursing skills are amongst the most valued things that our service users want from us. This focus on therapeutic relationships, establishing trusting, helpful ways of nursing and empowering children and young people to develop into healthy and resilient young adults has been neglected despite the feedback from those who need the help but often struggle to find it, or are wary of seeking help and reluctant to engage. It also stresses the importance of understanding the developmental and systemic context in which children and young people live their lives, and how this contributes to their needs.