Implementing guidance and guidelines for developing and delivering equitable child and adolescent mental health services

Mental health planning for children and youth: is it developmentally appropriate?

“…13,14 Children and adolescents present different mental disorders to adults, which are commonly associated with physical co-morbidities, disabilities and vulnerabilities, and they have critical developmental and contextual issues that must be addressed concurrently with symptom change in treatment. 4-8 All major treatment approaches for children and adolescents address developmental factors and contextual adversities as well as symptom clusters. Symptoms and disorders are not always continuous with adult conditions.…”

“…So, prevention and early intervention is generally provided at a primary or secondary level of care, and clients with more severe or complex problems are channelled to more specialist (expensive) care. 3,6,8 Specialist services also provide training, consultation and support to other tiers and sectors, in developed systems of care (Table 1).…”

“…policies for children and young people’s services may be absent or poorly articulated, even in developed countries 6,7…”

Turning policy into practice: an evaluation of policy for, and delivery of, education and training for the staff of specialist child and adolescent mental health services in England

“…Direct but anonymised quotations from the interview transcripts are presented to illustrate the key points that were identified through qualitative analysis. The findings are presented at the four levels of policy, as delineated by Williams and Hazell (2009). It is as important to identify the factors that were not raised as well as those that were.…”

“…Service development requires translation of lessons learned from research and experience to be translated into integrated and ethical policy at four levels (Williams and Hazell, 2009; see also Black, 2001;Williams and Kerfoot, 2005). These are:…”