Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Oman

Evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health services.

The authors review the status, strength, and quality of evidence-based practice in child and adolescent mental health services. The definitional criteria that have been applied to the evidence base differ considerably across treatments, and these definitions circumscribe the range, depth, and extensionality of the evidence. The authors describe major dimensions that differentiate evidence-based...

Accountability of specialist child and adolescent mental health services.

Outcome auditing of specialist child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is now well under way internationally. There is, however, debate about objectives and tools. A case is made for the achievable goal of enhancing service accountability through user satisfaction information and clinician-rated contextualised measures of improvements in symptoms and impairment.

Paediatric Liaison Work by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Background: Although psychiatric morbidity is common amongst paediatric patients, little is known about the availability of CAMH paediatric liaison services. Method: We surveyed all Trusts with specialist CAMH services and paediatric units in Greater London, enquiring about the nature of liaison that CAMHS provide. Results: We found that although liaison paediatric work was common, dedicated pa...

[Articulation between child and adolescent mental health services].

The objective of this paper was to describe and analyze the articulation between children and adolescent mental health care interventions undertaken by teams working under the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and Psychosocial Care Centers for Children and Adolescents (CAPSI). In order to achieve these objectives, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five CAPSI and 13 FHS managers from fiv...

Disparities in child and adolescent mental health and mental health services in the U.S