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Report from visits to children and younger people who use mental health services: report from our visits to young people using in-patient and community mental health services in Scotland 2009
- Author:
- MENTAL WELFARE COMMISSION FOR SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This study aimed to find out more about how child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) services are being provided across Scotland through a programme of visits. The aim was to provide a picture of how these services are developing to meet national policy priorities and the needs of individual children and young people. This report starts with a description of the reports and policy initiatives relating to CAMH services. It then describes the themed visit programme, in which visits were made to all specialist in-patient facilities, young people admitted to non-specialist wards were visited, medical and nursing notes were reviewed, and meetings were held with representatives from CAMH services and local authorities in each of the 11 NHS Board areas. In total, 16 young people in different units across Scotland were interviewed, case files of 13 more were reviewed, and staff in 11 units were interviewed during the visits. The results show that the experience the young people reported was varied, but overall positive. This report discusses and provides recommendations relating to the following issues: the young person’s experience; access to education and age appropriate activities; access to advocacy; staffing levels and staff training; admission, discharge criteria and models of care; 16 and 17 year olds; in-patient provision for young people with complex needs; legal issues; and other issues such as services for looked after children and children who self-harm.
Children's rights and mental health needs
- Author:
- MORLEY Dinah
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 204, March 2004, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
The author, Acting Director of YoungMinds, looks at the lack of services and investment in the field of child and adolescent mental health services. Highlights their importance if children's rights are to be upheld and supported.
Secret practices: interdisciplinary work in child welfare
- Author:
- TAYLOR Alexis A
- Publisher:
- Upfront
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 202p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
This ethnographic study presents a different perspective on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: that of the child’s. The author argues that the rights of children encountering this service are as seriously compromised as those of adult mental health service users once were. The evidence challenges the quality of assessments, and shows the powerful influence of technical language and power mongering on constructing realities. Professional work can be self-serving rather than ‘in the best interests of the child’. Some of the fundamental tensions in inter-disciplinary work and ‘joined up thinking’ are exposed. Novel ways of exploring critical decision points and working effectively in groups are presented. There are salutary messages for child welfare practitioners and policy makers, and compelling reasons for radically altering the child welfare system in the UK in order to meet the needs of distressed children. A new ‘architecture of care’ must replace the current monolithic institutions and professional tribes.
Help your child or teen get back on track: what parents and professionals can do for childhood emotional and behavioral problems
- Author:
- TALAN Kenneth H.
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 288p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication, written by a psychiatrist, provides self-help information and interventions for parents of children and young people who have emotional or behavioural problems. The first section, ‘parents interventions’, has four chapters of practical guidance for parents. Topics discussed separately for young people, pre-, and school children include problem severity (growing-up or disrupted/disordered), sudden or gradual changes, stress, anger, silence, fear, punishment, encouragement, routines, expectations, and disruption to, bodily routines/activities, emotional modulation, attachment and social/custom relationships, and information processing – learning/thinking.A chapter is included on the emotions experienced by parents and concerned adults. The second section ‘professionals’ interventions’ catalogues in seven chapters, children's mental health services, highlighting recent changes, theoretical and clinical examples of evaluation/testing, treatment and helpers (in- /out-patients), psychotherapy, medication and complementary/alternative therapies and side effects, money, energy and time costs of treatment, and the role of play in childhood/adolescence.
Overview of child and adolescent mental health services
- Authors:
- HOWELLS Sheila, ROBBINS Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 4(1), March 1999, pp.6-13.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Provides an overview of mental health services for children and young people, including assessment, treatment efficacy and recent policy developments.