Mental health: Guides and practice

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• Commissioning a good child health service
  This newly published guide produced by the RCGP in collaboration with the RCN and RCPCH provides a guide for commissioners to commission the best possible service for children. It gives a clear set of principles for how ...
  
  Publisher: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Moving on: suggestions for busy teachers to support pupils with SEN moving from primary to secondary school
  This guide is aimed at teachers and is divided into good practice suggestions for primary and secondary school staff. Some of the ideas are very practical and can be achieved quickly, others may take a little more planni ...
  
  Publisher: Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities (FPLD)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Care Quality Commission: Our strategy
  The CQC are making radical changes to the way they inspect and regulate health and social care services to make sure they provide people with safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care, and to encourage them to ...
  
  Publisher: Care Quality Commission (CQC)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Oxleas: I've got this letter
  This film, commissioned by Oxleas, is for children and young people who have received a letter about being referred to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). It aims to inform people about what they can exp ...
  
  Publisher: Oxleas
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Talking wellbeing: a discussion kit for young people
  Talking wellbeing is a kit that supports a five-step workshop exploring wellbeing in a guided yet flexible way. It is aimed at young people aged between 14-19, can be used with groups of between three to ten participants ...
  
  Publisher: National Children's Bureau (NCB)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Quality standard for the health and wellbeing of looked-after children and young people
  This quality standard covers the health and wellbeing of looked after children and young people from birth to 18 years and care leavers (including young people planning to leave care or under leaving care provisions). It ...
  
  Publisher: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• NICE CG158 Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people: recognition, intervention and management
  Conduct disorders, and associated antisocial behaviour, are the most common mental and behavioural problems in children and young people. The guideline covers a range of interventions including treatment, indicated preve ...
  
  Publisher: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• CAPA: The choice and partnership approach
  CAPA is a clinical system that has been implemented in many CAMHS teams in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It was developed in Richmond and East Herts CAMHS, and both teams have now run CAPA for many years. It is info ...
  
  Publisher: CAPA Systems Ltd
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Securing excellence in commissioning for offender health
  The NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) has published the single operating model for the commissioning of offender health services. The report sets out the national strategy for commissioning and how it will be co-ordinated ...
  
  Publisher: NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Mental health in emergency departments - a toolkit for improving care
  This toolkit provides several resources that emergency departments (EDs) can use to develop and improve the care provided to patients with mental health issues. Resources include guidelines, example assessment aids, exam ...
  
  Publisher: The College of Emergency Medicine
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Good practice film - Edith Neville Primary School: anti-bullying
  This short film shows how Edith Neville Primary School has created a positive culture to prevent bullying and to tackle it when it occurs.
  
  Publisher: Ofsted
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Guidance for commissioning public mental health services
  This guide from the Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (JCP-MH) is about the commissioning of good quality public mental health interventions.
  
  Publisher: Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health (JCP-MH)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents
  The Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents (FPSA) supports acute mental health services for adolescents. They help those who work with vulnerable young people through their funding, knowledge sharing and ...
  
  Publisher: The Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Good practice resource – Time to share – supporting children and families through bereavement: South Whitehaven Sure Start Children’s Centre
  Whitehaven and its surrounding community have endured a series of devastating tragedies over the past two years, with widespread flooding, a fatal coach crash involving local school children and a widely publicised shoot ...
  
  Publisher: Ofsted
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• This Much! for iPad
  A team of child psychologists have developed an iPad app that will enable professionals working with children to survey, explore and quantify almost any physical or mental experience or symptom.
  
  Publisher: Child and Family Training
  Published Date: 2013