Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)

We work with children and young people with a range of moderate to severe mental health needs including anxiety, low mood, depression, self-harm, obsessive-compulsive disorders, psychosis and the effects of trauma.

We are a friendly multidisciplinary service that assesses them when their difficulties have become hard to manage and/or where there are concerns about their behaviour or emotional wellbeing. We offer a range of therapeutic interventions which focus on problems and thinking about things in a different way together.

Our approach is to work in an open, collaborative and supportive way with children, young people and their families who may be offered:

• Assessment and planned individualised treatment programmes for children and young people experiencing severe persistent mental health problems and disorders
• Assessment, treatment and support for children and young people with mild to moderate learning disabilities and/or complex health care needs and their families
• Family appointments to think about ways to resolve problems together
• Individual therapy for young people to help them understand their feelings better and find new ways of coping
• Medication may be prescribed by a child and adolescent psychiatrist
• Mental health assessment and support
• Working closely with, and offer support for, other professionals about how best to help individual children and young people