Child & Adolescent Mental Health
The social work service aims to provide a holistic approach to children and young people’s mental health difficulties. All members of the team work with a multi-disciplinary child and adolescent mental health team within the South London & Maudsley Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
We draw upon knowledge of psycho-social approaches to help children and their families cope with the distress and difficulties they face, and are an important bridge to local community resources, services and support. We advise on current procedural and legislative frameworks, promote culturally sensitive responses and interventions and, increasingly, ensure that young people’s views and wishes are taken seriously in care planning and management.
Our social work staff are deployed in a variety of national and specialist child mental health services as well as within Southwark’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Social workers are attached to both in patient and outpatient teams and provide a social work perspective in both the generic and specialist child mental health services. Team members are also deployed within the local family support service and the children’s mental health looked after service, Carelink.