Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)

The service provides specialist assessment and treatment for children and young people who have severe, complex and enduring emotional/behavioural/mental health difficulties. The following general categories describe the children and young people who will be accepted for assessment and treatment, where their difficulties are leading to significant functional impairment:

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Emotional and behavioural disorders

• Conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder

• Psychotic Disorder in young people under the age of 14

• Suicidal ideation

• Moderate to severe Deliberate Self Harm

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

• Neurodevelopmental conditions (where there are co-morbid mental health needs)

• Post-traumatic stress disorders

• Complex Bereavement (where there are mental health difficulties)

• Somatising disorders

• Presentations that could be described as emerging personality disorder will probably be accepted under mood disorder, suicidal ideation and self-harm.