Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialist Services
Below are the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialist Services available to support children, young people and families across a range of complex mental health needs.
Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT)
This service responds to young people in mental health crisis who require an admission to General Adolescent Mental Health Units, they provide, assessment, and support to young people and their carers who are experiencing acute mental health crisis that would normally result in admission to hospital. This is carried out in the community and young people’s homes.
Children Emergency Care Service (CECS)
The CAMHS Emergency Care Service (CECS) is a team of specialist nurses who provide assessment and management plans for young people up to age 18 who come to accident and emergency and children's wards having a mental health crisis. The CECS Team also provide urgent seven day follow ups for young people, not already known to CAMHS who are registered with a GP in one of the Trust's five boroughs and who have been seen at local and non-local hospitals.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) Service
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy is a specialist service is for young people that require intensive multi-disciplinary support to reduce suicidal behaviours, self- harm and other risk presentations.
Children and young people's Community Eating Disorders Service (CEDS)
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) that specialises in treating children and young people who have an Eating Disorder. They are based at Springfield Hospital and service hours are Monday Friday, 9am-5pm. The service offers assessment and treatment in the community for young people up to the age of 18 with an eating disorder who are registered with a GP in Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston or Richmond.
CAMHS Learning Disability service provides specialist assessment and treatment for Children and Young People who have moderate to profound Learning Disability and present with mental health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
CAMHS Learning Disability service offers a range of treatments and assessments for children and young people experiencing mental and physical health problems or presenting with behaviour that challenges those around them. Where appropriate, combinations of approaches are used within a multi-disciplinary framework, in line with the young person's needs and goals as agreed with the family through a care planning approach.
National Deaf Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Deaf CAMHS)
These services are provided in community locations as well as in our inpatient ward (Corner House) based at Springfield Hospital. The Community Services are part of the Deaf Children, Young People and Family Community Services whose remit is to provide highly specialised mental health care to Deaf Children and Young People (aged 0 to 18 years) and their families, and hearing Children and Young People of Deaf Adults in the community.
They work with specialist professionals and teams to provide you with the highest possible quality of care in British Sign Language so that you can achieve the best outcomes from the treatments we offer.
