Mental health: Improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT)

The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme supports the frontline NHS in implementing National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders. The Children and Young People’s IAPT project, launched in 2011, aims to improve access to treatment the evidence say works, improve outcome monitoring in order to understand what is and isn’t working, and make sure services are shaped and developed so they work for children, young people and where relevant, their families.

This key topic brings together resources relating to improving access to psychological therapies for children and young people.

• DH: New technology to improve children’s mental health services
  New handheld computers will boost children’s mental health services by helping to quickly tailor treatment to meet their needs and showing them what progress they have made, Norman Lamb, Care and Support Minister has announced.
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• MyAPT
  MyAPT is a membership site that helps young people, mental health professionals, CAMHS partnerships and the universities that train them to embed children and young people’s participation in the way they deliver psychological therapies.
  
  Publisher: GIFT Partnership
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• A Practical Guide to Using Service User Feedback & Outcome Tools to Inform Clinical Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health
  Some initial guidance from the Children and Young Peoples’ Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Outcomes-Oriented Practice (CO-OP) Group
  
  Publisher: IAPT
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Routine outcome monitoring as part of children and young people's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme
  This section of the IAPT website provides information about how patient reported outcomes will be routinely monitored in the children and young people's IAPT projects funded by the Department of Health. IAPT works with existing child and adolescent mental health services in the NHS, voluntary sector and other settings to improve service to children and young people. It includes links to:
  • Briefing note that summarises the way forward agreed for routine outcome monitoring in CYP IAPT.
  • CYP IAPT dataset detailing all data fields collaborating sites are required to collect.
  • A practical guide to using service user feedback and outcome tools to inform clinical practice in child and adolescent mental health.
  • Children and Young Peoples IAPT tracking outcomes: resource pack which contains a range of measures and resources for use with children, young people and parents.
  
  
  Publisher: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) website
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Children and young people's IAPT conference (Mar 2011) report and resources
  A webspace to store all the videos, thoughts, pictures, reflections and ideas from the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) conference organised by YoungMinds and the Department for Health on Saturday 19th March 2011.
  
  Publisher: YoungMinds
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• IAPT: Children and young people's project
  The Children and Young People's IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) project is a new strand within the overall IAPT Programme. The Government has committed to expanding IAPT to meet the needs of children and young people with a project starting in 2011-12. It is a service transformation project for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). The focus is on extending training to staff and service managers in CAMHS and embedding evidence based practice across services, making sure that the whole service, not just the trainee therapists, use session by session outcome monitoring.
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Working with under 18 year olds: guidance for commissioners, IAPT service providers and those working in IAPT services
  The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to those working in IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) services, as well as commissioners and providers of services, regarding working with under 18 year olds.
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Talking about talking therapies: thinking and planning about how best to make good and accessible talking therapies available to children and young people
  This report is based on a consultation event with children and young people.
  
  Publisher: YoungMinds
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• What do parents and carers think about routine outcome measures and their use? A focus group study of CAMHS attenders
  Currently service user involvement in routine outcomes monitoring has been minimal, particularly in Children’s services. There needs to be a more sustained effort to involve service users because of the valuable information that they could provide for service development and improvement.
  
  Publisher: Clinical Child Psycholgy and Psychiatry
  Published Date: 2011