Outcome Orientated Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (OO-CAMHS)

Overmedicalization of young people’s distress is undermining and disempowering families

Author: Editorial 7th July 2023 0 Comments

This article by Emma Fergusson, Shona Reed-Purvis and Lucy Foulkes has been published in Nature. It begins: “Cases of mild or transient distress in young people are increasingly viewed as problems that require medical intervention. As CAMHS clinicians, we argue that…
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a coherent system

children and adolescents, Clients & Patients, Emma Fergusson, fa, Lucy Foulkes, Nature Mental Health, Outcome Orientated Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (OO-CAMHS), Shona Reed-Purvis

Beyond diagnosis: developing an outcome orientated approach

Author: Editorial 12th August 2020 0 Comments

This presentation by Sami Timimi (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist) was given at a 2015 Conference – POSITIVE ACTION FOR CHANGE IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. The conference was hosted by PCCS Books, who say: “The presentation addresses evidence that highlights why…
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collaborative practice

children and adolescents, diagnostic labelling, mental health outcomes, Outcome Orientated Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (OO-CAMHS), PCCS Books, psychiatry, Sami Timimi