CAMHS offers different types of support depending on what you need. This is called the Stepped Care Model, which just means that you get the right help, at the right time, from the right people.
Step 1 –Universal / Prevention
This is targeted prevention for potentially vulnerable children and their families / carers. It involves a range of children and young people’s services promoting all aspects of health and wellbeing
Step 2 – Early Intervention
The CAMHS Primary Mental Health Team provides assessment and intervention to children and young people who are experiencing mild to moderate behavioural or developmental difficulties and / or mental health and emotional difficulties
Step 3 – Specialist Intervention
Support at this level usually involves intervention provided to children and young people who are experiencing moderate /severe mental health and emotional difficulties, which are having a significant impact on daily / psychological/social / educational functioning. Recovery focused support and treatment will involve a combination evidence based treatments.
Step 4 – Crisis Intervention in the community
Support at this level usually involves the provision of crisis intervention designed to manage the needs of those children and young people who are at immediate risk or who need intensive therapeutic care.
Step 5 – Crisis and Intensive Interventions within in-patient setting.
Support at this level is provided for those children and young people who are experiencing highly complex, enduring mental health and emotional difficulties, which severely restrict daily psychological/social functioning.
Our Services
Our Services Include:
- Administration team
- Referral Co-ordinating team
- Emotional Wellbeing Team in schools
- ADHD
- Primary mental health /Early Intervention
- Step 3
- Crisis Team
- Eating Disorder team
- Family Therapy Team
- Drug and Alcohol
Together, we’ll work with you to figure out what’s going on and how to support you best.
You can get help with:
- Talking about your feelings
- Managing worries or difficult thoughts
- Understanding your behaviour
- Coping after something difficult or traumatic
- Support with eating, relationships, risk taking behaviours, school and more