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A place to heal young minds
- Author:
- de CASTELLA Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Young People Now, 30.3.10, 2010, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket Business Publications Ltd
Revised legislation that comes into effect on 1 April makes it a requirement for primary care trusts to provide age-appropriate care for young people under 18 with mental health problems. The author visits east London's Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health, a state of the art centre, to look at what this could mean. The centre provides psychiatric intensive care, acute care and a day service.
Pushed into the shadows: young people's experiences of adult mental health facilities
- Author:
- PARKER Camilla
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 233, February 2007, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
This article summaries and comments on the report 'Pushed into the Shadows: young people's experience of adult mental health facilities'. The report is based on the findings of a consultation, carried out by YoungMinds, with young people who had been admitted on to adult in-patient psychiatric facilities. The focus of the Consultation was to find out from young people what their experiences were and what they thought need to be done in order to address the problems that they had identified in relation to mental health services.
Working together to provide age-appropriate environments and services for mental health patients aged under 18: a briefing for commissioners of adult mental health services and child and adolescent mental health services
- Author:
- NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT UNIT
- Publisher:
- National Mental Health Development Unit
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The new section 131A of the Mental Health Act is due to come into force in April 2010. This amendment will ensure that patients aged under 18 are treated in an environment in hospital which is suitable having regard to their age, with the purpose of preventing the inappropriate admission of children and young people to adult psychiatric wards. This briefing highlights how commissioners can work together to meet the new duty on age-appropriate accommodation in a timely manner. Contents include: the change in legislation; commissioning age-appropriate environments and services - where are we now?; what do young people want; getting ready for 2010 - meeting the new duty. The Annexes include fundamental principles in the Code of Practice and the legislation and policy context.
Where next?: new directions in in-patient mental health services for young people; report 2
- Authors:
- SVANBERG Jenny, STREET Cathy
- Publisher:
- YoungMinds
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Views from young people, parents and staff as much as possible quotes from those who were interviewed for the study are used to illustrate the issues raised by the research. The issues are clustered into four main phases of contact with in-patient CAMHS: issues before admission; the admission process; issues during stay and discharge and after. Throughout the report, checklists are presented that will be of value to practitioners working with young people who require in-patient care and treatment. These include what young people want to know on admission, the views of older adolescents towards their involvement in their care and what young people identified as helpful aspects of care. One chapter also draws together all the things identified by young people that can help to make the experience of admission to an in-patient unit more positive.
Clinical governance review: North Cumbria mental health and learning disabilities NHS trust; October 2002
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
- Publisher:
- Commission for Health Improvement
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
North Cumbria Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Trust serves a population of 310,000 with middling levels of affluence and less than 0.5% ethnic minorities. This report gives an independent assessment of how well the trust is ensuring high standards of care and what it is doing to continuously improve the quality of services. It takes account of the previous investigation by acknowledging that the trust is not only developing as a new organisation, but that some of its services start from a very low baseline. This review considered mental health services for working age adults in and around Carlisle, and for older adults in and around Whitehaven. CHI is developing methods for assessing clinical governance in learning disability,substance misuse and child and adolescent mental health services.