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Primary mental health workers (PMHWs) in child and adolescent mental health services: a survey of PMHWs perceptions about organisation, management and role: executive summary
- Authors:
- HICKEY Nicole, KRAMER Tami, GARRALDA Elena
- Publisher:
- Imperial College London
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Primary Mental Health Workers (PMHWs) work with children in the 0-18 age group and their families. They communicate with specialist child and adolescent mental health services and universal services, such as professionals in schools, nursery staff or youth workers. They work in the community and can see children and families.
Primary mental health workers (PMHWs) in child and adolescent mental health services: a survey of PMHWs perceptions about organisation, management and role
- Authors:
- HICKEY Nicole, KRAMER Tami, GARRALDA Elena
- Publisher:
- Imperial College London
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 99p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Primary Mental Health Workers (PMHWs) work with children in the 0-18 age group and their families. They communicate with specialist child and adolescent mental health services and universal services, such as professionals in schools, nursery staff or youth workers. They work in the community and can see children and families.
Use of a routine mental health measure in an adolescent secure unit
- Authors:
- YATES Peter, KRAMER Tami, CARRALDA M. Elana
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 188(6), June 2006, pp.583-584.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The authors examined the use of a staff-completed measure, the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA), to record mental health problems in adolescents in local authority secure accommodation. It proved possible to train staff and implement completion of the HoNOSCA on 64 consecutive admissions. Interrater reliability was high. The HoNOSCA identified high levels of psychological problems on admission. Follow-up HoNOSCA ratings proved sensitive to change; however, correlation between HoNOSCA and adolescent-completed questionnaires was poor. The authors concluded that HoNOSCA can be helpful in documenting mental health problems among young people admitted to secure local authority units.