336/02 (19), which creates the conditions for funding the construction of CAPS, including the modality CAPSi, which provides
child and adolescent mental health services, leading to a significant expansion of the psychosocial care network.
This purpose-built space was created to improve services for children and young people by bringing together in one place Knowsley
child and adolescent mental health services and the Cheshire and Mid-Mersey Children's Eating Disorder Service.
Despite reports of significantly higher prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems in children in Pakistan, only a limited number of these children receive any psychiatric services.1,2 One needs to review the possible barriers to utilization of services as children rarely make their own treatment decisions, Alongside stigma, economic adversity and limited
child and adolescent mental health services, socio-cultural factors and parental perceptions are being increasingly recognized as important in recognition and presentation of child mental health disorders and use of services.3
OVER-REFERRALS to
child and adolescent mental health services are having "disastrous consequences" for people who really need the support, a report has revealed.
Child and adolescent mental health services have always been chronically underfunded with early intervention, including those provided by local authorities in schools, hardest hit by cuts.
The Maudsley's approach will mean that the core team will have access to all the highly specialist
child and adolescent mental health services based at the Maudsley Hospital in London, UK.
The Welsh Government says the new services will help to reduce waiting times in specialist
child and adolescent mental health services so children and young people with the most complex conditions and the highest levels of clinical need are seen quickly.
The Welsh Labour Government claims the cash equates to an 18% increase in the
child and adolescent mental health services' (CAMHS) budget.
Developing
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Pakistan was discussed in a special meeting of the Executive Committee of Pakistan Psychiatric Society.
The Commons Health Select Committee recently carried out an inquiry into
child and adolescent mental health services. It found huge gaps in services, including a lack of appropriate support for children and young people suffering from mental health problems.
Kaplan's text is derived from a working group of British mental health care professionals established by the Child and Adolescent Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2003 to examine the delivery of
child and adolescent mental health services in emergency departments in the UK.