CEHP Seminar - Cathy Creswell

Title: Analogue to digital, Hospital to Home, and Treatment to Prevention: How we are applying Wes’s three principles to child anxiety disorders?

Abstract:

In September 2024 Wes Streeting, the UK’s Health and Social Care Secretary, announced three strategic priorities for NHS reform - shifting care from hospital to community, transitioning from analogue to digital systems, and focusing on prevention over treatment.  It will be critical that we grasp this challenge in the area of child mental health where effective mental health care, and evidence-based psychological therapies in particular, continue to exceed the available supply. This talk will draw on examples from a programme of mixed method studies to develop, evaluate, and implement digitally-augmented treatment in which parents are supported to help their pre-adolescent children overcome anxiety problems. I hope to illustrate the potential of digitally augmented approaches and making the most of parents, as well as some of the challenges faced (including in relation to implementation in routine practice) and how we have overcome them so far.