Practitioners

This page is intended to provide you with useful information as a CAMHS practitioner. You should also refer to the news section on the homepage for more recent updates.

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Key organisations

Publications

Bright Futures: Promoting Children and Young People's Mental Health, The Mental Health Foundation,1999

Butler, R and Green, D, The Child Within: Exploration of Personal Construct Theory with Young People, Hodder Arnold, 1998

Cattanach, A, Play Therapy: Where the Sky Meets the Underworld, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1994

Dallos, R and Draper, R, An Introduction to Family Therapy: Systemic Theory and Practice, Open University Press, 2005

D'Ardenne, P and Mahtani, A, Transcultural Counselling in Action, SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

Richardson, J, The Mental Health of Looked-after Children: Working with Vulnerable Young People, Mental Health Foundation, 2002

Walker, S, Culturally Competent Therapy: Working with Children and Young People, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Best Practice

Sound Out
Newham hosted an energetic event at Stratford Town Hall in March, to look at good examples of how young people participate in issues around mental health. Click here to find out more.

Policies

Some key documents for reference.

Choosing Health

Every Child Matters

National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on the Mental Health of Children

UN Convention on Rights of the Child

Resources

Below you will find useful materials available to download:

Building Collaborative Networks in child and adolescent mental health – a trainers' manual for Tier 1 practitioners
Developed by Newham CFCS, this exciting new publication outlines suggested topics for a series of five morning workshops, as a foundation course in child and adolescent mental health.

Healthy Schools Emotional Health and Wellbeing Toolkit