Mental health: Guides and practice

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• 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 e ...
  
  Publisher: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) website
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Must-Knows on Health and Wellbeing
  Councils can have a tremendous impact on health – through sports, open space, housing, planning, social care and a range of other services. However many members are largely unfamiliar with the territory of health service ...
  
  Publisher: Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Building a culture of participation e-Learning
  The course will support managers within all disciplines and settings who are in the process of developing participation within the organisation and explores how an organisation’s culture can be established to support chi ...
  
  Publisher: Participation Works
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Guidance for commissioners of mental health services for young people making the transition from child and adolescent to adult services
  This guide describes what ‘good’ looks like for a modern transitions service from child and adolescent mental health services(CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS). If should be of value to Clinical Commissioning ...
  
  Publisher: Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Behaviour and discipline in schools: A guide for head teachers and school staff
  This guidance provides advice to head teachers and school staff on developing the school behaviour policy and explains the powers members of staff have to discipline pupils.
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Good practice resource - A whole-school approach to tackling homophobic bullying and ingrained attitudes: Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form
  Stoke Newington has a curriculum which meets the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students (LGBT) and extends all students’ understanding of diversity. Training for all staff, their commitment to equality ...
  
  Publisher: Ofsted
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Kids Company
  Kids Company is a London-based charity which provides practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children. It employs a widely skilled team of professionals working at street level to create a ...
  
  Publisher: Kids Company
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• National ambition to local delivery: report and outcomes of the children and young people's thematic day
  This is the report of the thematic workshop on children and young people’s mental health held at the Department of Health on 25th October 2011. It includes good practice examples of mental health strategy implementation; ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• eLearning: Parental mental health and families
  These elearning resources are freely available to all. They provide audio, video and interactive technology to assist in exploring the nature of parental mental health and its impact on families.
  
  Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• All babies count (website)
  Babies are more likely to suffer neglect and abuse and are eight times more likely to be killed than any other child. This NSPCC campaign is calling on everyone - the public, professionals and governments – to ensure tha ...
  
  Publisher: NSPCC
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Well-being knowledge bank (ONS website)
  Measuring national well-being is one of the Office for National Statistics' (ONS's) key analysis programmes. This website is a repository of links, information and plans relating to well-being. It includes a section on c ...
  
  Publisher: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• CAPA - Choice and Partnership Approach
  This website aims to provide everything you need to know about Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA): the 11 components, the basics, how to implement, troubleshooting, service evaluation, and stories of services who hav ...
  
  Publisher: CAMHS Network
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Mental health service transitions for young people
  This guide is for all staff working with young people with mental health problems who need to move from one service to another that is, to make a 'transition'. It includes underlying principles, information about making ...
  
  Publisher: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Longer-term care and treatment of self-harm (NICE)
  This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the longer-term treatment and management of self-harm. It follows on from Self-harm: the short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention o ...
  
  Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• 25by2012
  25by2012 is campaign that aims to address threats to mental health and wellbeing on university campuses by establishing student groups at 25 universities by the end of the year. Groups have already been established in a ...
  
  Publisher: Mental Wealth UK
  Published Date: 2011