News and presentations from today's CAMHS National Summit, focusing on transforming mental health services for children and young people. The conference addresses suicide prevention and learning from suicide and also safeguarding and CAMHS.
Chair’s Welcome & Introduction
Dr Jon Goldin
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Joint Training Programme Director, Mildred Creak Unit
Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust
Transforming mental health services for children & young people and the importance of learning from lived experience
Kahra Wayland-Larty
Campaigns and Policy Manager
Youth Access
with Leah Priestley-Black
Rights Advocate, Our Minds Our Future
Youth Access
• how can a rights-based approach help to tackle current challenges?
• improving access to services for CYP
• improving the quality of services using young people’s feedback
• supporting early intervention and accessibility
• integrated, community-based services
• the role, opportunities and challenges for providers, commissioners, young people and the voluntary sector
Kahra and Leah introduce Youth Access, a membership organization representing over 180 youth services around the country, helping young people to access support for their mental health and the issues that underpin it. The sessions presents Our Minds Our Future, a youth-led campaign calling for a mental health system that meets young people’s human rights.
Kahra and Leah discuss a rights-based approach to CAMHS, prioritising the right of young people to have ”the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health” (UNCESCR), the right to be involved in deciscions affected by them, and the importance of listening to young people when making decisions and policies.
Improving mental health services for children & young people during Covid-19 Transforming mental health services for children & young adults
Dr Harriet Stewart
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• the impact of Covid-19 on children and young people’s mental health
• how can we better support children & young people during and beyond Covid-19?
• improving mental health services for children and young people
• early intervention and accessibility to CYPMH services
• workforce development
• role of data and outcome measures
• adapting CAMHS during Covid -19 and meeting demand
Dr. Harriet Stewart introduces pre-pandemic statistics on the proportion of children with emotional and behavioural disorders, followed by the changes we are able to recognise from March 2019-2022. Due to the impact of Covid, a 50% drop in referrals is observed, and a reduction of face to face patient care. At the same time, we can notice a reduction in self harm, as there is more support available at home and less anxiety regarding scohool and social life. Similar pattern can be observed in USA (Penner et al 2021; UK Chen et al 2020).
Harriet discusses the current statistics, changes in behaviour pattern, along with current issues faced by Mental Health Services. Some of the problems identified in the presentation are long waiting lists, lack of early identification and diagnosis, lack of effective specialized support, superficial intervention which does not meet the childrens and the families complex needs, as well as the effect of the pandemic on CAMHS professionals suffering from exhaustion and burn-out.
The session presents in more detail two clinical examples.
The children and young people engagement report
Russell Knight
Head of Engagement
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
with Stephanie Ford
Psychologist
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
and Alan Fransman
Senior Engagement Officer
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
• overview of the Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse
• overview of the Children and Young Persons Engagement report
• summary of victims and survivors experience of CAMHS services
SUPPLIER SHOWCASE: Secret Agent Society, Solving the Mystery of Social Encounters
Kathleen Davey
Chief Operating Officer & Clinical Psychologist
Social Skills Training Institute
• empower social-emotional resilience in 8-12 year old children
• expand telehealth and face-to-face services
• 12 Years, 17 Publications, 11 Countries – Now with Digital Health Innovation!
SUPPLIER SHOWCASE: SilverCloud: Bringing Digital Mental Health Support to Young People & Parents
Helen McGlinchey
Head of Service & Clinic Lead – Schools
Northpoint Wellbeing Ltd
• how to embed new pathways to increase access to online evidence-based therapy for children and young people
• the impact it had on young people and service staff
• the roadmap to additional service offerings