As gatekeepers, parents can improve the uptake of mental health services among youth. This article asked whether providing parents with a presentation on computer-based therapies is a feasible strategy to improve their knowledge, attitudes and uptake intentions. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.
The impact of policy and funding on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) activity and capacity, from 2003 to 2012, was assessed. The focus was on preschool children (aged 0–4 years), as current and 2003 policy initiatives stressed the importance of ‘early intervention’. Open Access Article
MyWell-being Online is Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s online service connecting young people with qualified health professionals at the touch of a button. Anyone aged 11-19 living or attending school in Cheshire West and Chester can log on and as well as browse useful tips and advice, speak to someone around low mood, relationship issues as well as exam result worries.
The Specialist Health and Resilient Environment (SHARE) is a joint partnership between Wigan Council and our Trust which gives children and young people specialist support at a time when they have significant mental health concerns such as self-harming or thoughts about taking their own life.
As part of the project a dedicated home, which is registered with Ofsted, has been created with bedrooms that allow young people a place to stay for up to 72 hours with staff on hand 24 hours a day to offer support. It also offers them space to go and get advice and a place to talk to staff when they need it.
A new partnership of healthcare providers, including AWP, has been selected as the preferred bidder to deliver community health services for children and young people. The services will run in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset and are due to begin in April 2017.
The services will include health visiting, school nursing, child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS), speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, community paediatricians, community nursing and a range of dedicated services for vulnerable children including children in care, children with learning disabilities, children with life limiting conditions and children with drug and alcohol problems.
Our findings suggest that WS is clinically relevant in the presentation of youth with BN, and that it may need to be addressed as one important factor in BN psychopathology. Future studies using growth charts to determine historically highest and lowest BMIz may help to further elucidate the link (or lack thereof) between WS and BN psychopathology in youth.
Stigma and Health1.3 (Aug 2016): 185-200.
Adolescent depression is widespread, yet very few studies have examined the stigmatizing attitudes adolescents hold toward peers with depression. This study employs a theoretically driven definition of stigma, and explores a range of depression stigma predictors (gender, depression label, contact with depression, emotional symptoms, and essentialist beliefs). To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The staff from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, the community and mental health provider, have been advising teachers how to identify and help youngsters who are experiencing emotional difficulties.
Costing £150,000, which has been funded by Peterborough City Council, the Project For Schools Team is made up of three community psychiatric nurses who are available to all 70 primary schools in Peterborough.
Anxiety disorders are among the most common emotional difficulties experienced by children and young people. They cause significant disturbance to the lives of young people and their families and present a risk for lifelong psychological disturbance. Effective psychological (ie, cognitive–behaviour therapy (CBT)) and pharmacological interventions (eg, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)) have been established. However, the risk of adverse effects and unknown long-term effects of using SSRIs has led to recommendations that CBT is delivered as a first-line intervention. Recent innovations have included the development of low-intensity CBT programmes, delivered briefly via parents or online. These hold promise to increase access to psychological therapies for children and young people with these common and severe difficulties. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Adolescent depression has an adverse effect on school, social and family functioning, and increases the risk of suicide and substance misuse in young adulthood.1 Parental depression is an important risk factor for the development of adolescent depression.2 Children of parents with depression have a twofold to threefold increased risk of developing depressive disorders compared with the offspring of healthy parents.3 Preventive interventions targeting offspring of depressed parents have shown promising short-term effects, although the long-term effects are unknown.4 To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
he Availability, Responsiveness, and Continuity (ARC) organizational intervention is designed to improve community-based youth mental health services by aligning organizational priorities with 5 principles of effective service organizations (i.e., mission driven, results oriented, improvement directed, relationship centered, participation based). This study assessed the effect of the ARC intervention on youth outcomes and the mediating role of organizational priorities as a mechanism linking the ARC intervention to outcomes. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
West London Mental Health Trust is delivering an innovative new pilot programme to provide better integrated mental healthcare for children and young people in crisis.