What Constitutes a Good Outcome in Mental Health?

Abstract

Over the past decade, there has been a push in the UK to measure the outcomes of child and adolescent mental health services. If done well, routine outcome measurement can help improve service performance, promote shared decision making, and tailor treatment to the needs of service users and their parents.

However, there is a lack of consensus about the types of change that constitute a 'good outcome', and an urgent need for better ways of theorising and measuring children's mental health outcomes. This workshop, ran by the Anna Freud Centre, aims to stimulate an interdisciplinary debate about what constitutes a good outcome in child and adolescent mental health by bringing together speakers from variety of backgrounds.  

Main Speakers

• Prof Miranda Wolpert
• Dr Edward Harcourt
• Anna Alexandrova
• Dr Jan Boehnke
• Jess Deighton
• Kate Martin
• Dr Praveetha Pataly

Conference Registration

The Anna Freud Centre warmly invite anybody with an interest in child mental health outcomes, including mental health practitioners, researchers, young people and their parents, teachers, policy makers, service managers and commissioners.

Fee: £30

Further Information

For any additional queries please contact davina.metters@annafreud.org or visit The Anna Freud Centre Website