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What treatment can CAMHS offer?
CAMHS offers talking therapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Family Therapy, Psychotherapy and Medication.
What does CAMHS cover?
CAMHS stands for Child and adolescent mental health services. It’s a free service run by your local NHS and is made up of medical and mental health professionals. CAMHS can help if you’re going through mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, hearing voices, self-harm, or suicidal thoughts.
What are CAMHS powers?
In addition to providing support for children, CAMHS can also help parents and carers who need help and advice to deal with behavioural or other problems their child is experiencing.
What is a Tier 4 CAMHS service?
CAMHS Tier 4 are specialised services that provide assessment and treatment for children and young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties. Tier four services treat patients with more complex needs usually requiring inpatient treatment.
What is CAMHS now called?
Children and young people’s mental health services (CYPMHS) is used as a term for all services that work with children and young people who have difficulties with their mental health or wellbeing. You may also see the term children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) used.
What do CAMHS crisis team do?
The CAMHS crisis and home treatment service provides rapid assessment and treatment for young people experiencing mental health difficulties, and support for their family. The team will talk with the young person and agree a treatment plan that meets their needs.
What questions do they ask at CAMHS?
Some common questions that usually come up during this appointment are:
- How long have you been facing these problems?
- How has your mood been lately?
- What is life at school like for you?
- What would you like to achieve or change at CAMHS?
- How do you think we can help you best?
- How do you get on with your family?
What can CAMHS diagnose?
What sorts of conditions can CAMHS help with?
- Anxious away from care givers (Separation anxiety)
- Anxious in social situations (Social anxiety/phobia)
- General anxiety (generalised anxiety)
- Compelled to do or think things (OCD)
- Panics (Panic Disorder)
- Avoids going out (Agoraphobia)
- Avoids specific things (Specific phobia)
What is a Tier 3 CAMHS service?
Tier 3. Tier 3 services are usually multidisciplniary teams or services working in a community mental health setting or a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient service, providing a service for children and young people with more severe, complex and persistent disorders.
What is tier2 CAMHS?
Tier 2 means early help and targeted services. Some of Hertfordshire’s targeted child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), Step 2, are provided by Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. Tier 3 means specialist CAMHS, including eating disorder services.
Can you section 136 a child?
Children of any age may be detained using section 136 MHA 1983, and any person under 18 years of age may be taken into police protection using section 46 of the Children Act 1989.
Can CAMHS prescribe medication?
Child psychiatrists are the only CAMHS professionals who can prescribe medication if it is needed. Sometimes specially trained CAMHS nurses may prescribe for some illnesses (e.g. like ADHD).
What does CAMHS do for children and young people?
At CAMHS we offer a range of treatments and therapeutic practices; the package of support that we provide a child or young person will be tailored to their individual needs. Any intervention follows detailed assessment and will be agreed and planned with the child and their family/carers.
What is the structure and operation of CAMHS?
The structure and operation of CAMHS can seem complex, because it differs from the way children’s physical health services and adult mental health services are set up. The structure of CAMHS is probably best explained in terms of how a child or young person accesses the service, with four ‘tiers’ of service provision (JCPMH 2013).
How old do you have to be to get support from CAMHS?
CAMHS offers mental health and psychological support to young people up to the ages of 16 or 18, depending on your local area.
Who are the mental health nurses at CAMHS?
Community Psychiatric Nurses (CPN) and Mental Health Nurses (MHN) are trained in mental health and can provide emotional and practical support to an individual, either at the CAMHS centre or through home visits.