Focusing on the best way to improve children's mental health services - a discussion in the BMJ

They argue that adopting a person focused approach with better integration of education, health and social care is needed to improve children's mental health services; and go on to identify three pieces of conventional thinking which need challenging in order to achieve this:

• more services do not guarantee more health
• clinical evidence alone should not determine treatment
• healthcare is best delivered by including non-health professionals

Read the full article here:

• Full article via the BMJ website
  

Join Miranda and colleagues for upcoming events that may be of interest:

• Free seminar on person-centred care in CAMHS at 5:30pm on 25th April in Old Street, London, including panel discussion
• An interdisciplinary conference on "What Constitutes a Good Outcome in Child Mental Health?" on 3rd July in Marylebone, London, cost: £30, which brings together speakers from a variety of different backgrounds, including philosophers, researchers and young people with lived experience of mental health difficulties.