Child and Adolescent Mental Health Programme Developments

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Programme
Developments

• Lisa Woods
• Liverpool John Moores University

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Emotional Health and Well-being

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health is everyones
  business (Every Child Matters)
• All children and young people from birth to
  18yrs who have mental health problems and
  disorders have timely, integrated, high quality,
  multi-disciplinary mental health services (NFS
  Standard 9)

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• Specialist CAMHS specific knowledge and skill
  development related to role
• The wider CAMHS community develop sufficient
  knowledge, training and support to promote
  psychological well-being and identify early
  indicators of difficulty

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Facts

• Mental health disorder (as defined by ICD-10)
  prevalence rate of around 10 (ONS, 2000)
• greater among boys than girls in both the 5-10
  and 11-15 year old age groups a prevalence of
  11 in boys compared with 8 in girls
• One in five children and adolescents suffer from
  a wide range of mental health problems. The Audit
  Commission (1999)
• Cluster of problems family life and
  relationships, problems involving emotional and
  related symptoms, problems with peer
  relationships, and problems through disruptive,
  antisocial or aggressive behaviour.

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Developments

• Overall vision to build capacity and enhance
  skills in mental health promotion and
  intervention regardless of the setting in which
  practitioners work.
• Developing and establish partnerships with a
  range of service colleagues
• Programme design
• Programme delivery
• Programme evaluation

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Teaching and Learning

• Meet the needs of practitioners and services
• All programmes
• taught in conjunction with practitioners working
  with children and young people
• Closely linked and mapped to relevant policy and
  guidance
• focus on interprofessional and multi agency
  approaches to supporting children and young
  people
• Draw on staff teams from within the university
• Address knowledge and skills
• Flexible learning experience

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Course developments

• Skills Based Approaches to Child and Adolescent
  Mental Health
• Professional Development in Child and Adolescent
  Mental Health within schools
• Mad, Bad or Misunderstood
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Family Therapy