Aims and MethodsThis paper describes a 10-year alliance between an adult psychotherapy service and a child and adolescent mental health service to bring psychotherapeutically-informed help to families in difficulties early in the lives of their children.ResultsIt outlines staff training, the development of the unit into a significant training resource, the unit's underlying philosophy, its therapies and the key inter-relationships between teams and with health visitors to enable mutual teaming and the rapid access of families to assessment and treatment of the parent-child relationship.Clinical ImplicationsFunding, future plans and the preventive and economic implications of such work are mentioned.

No abstract

No abstract