Appendices to - An Evaluation of Specialist Mental Health Services for Deaf Children and Young People

TY - GEN

T1 - Appendices to - An Evaluation of Specialist Mental Health Services for Deaf Children and Young People

AU - Beresford, B

AU - Greco, V

AU - Clarke, S

AU - Sutherl, H

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - Deaf children are at increased risk for mental health difficulties compared with their hearing peers. Access to high quality, effective mental health services is a key standard of the Children's National Service Framework. There is evidence, however, that deaf children are not accessing mental health support and that generic CAMHS do not have the necessary skills or expertise, such as being able to meet a child's communication needs, and being knowledgeable about deafness and the relationship between mental health and deafness.The first specialist mental health service for deaf children was established in London in 1991. In 2004, two further services (in the West Midlands and York) were funded to extend access. An innovative aspect of this network was the use of teleconferencing (known as the telelink) to facilitate case management and supervision between services, and to allow, where appropriate, children referred to the West Midlands and York services the opportunity to work with a clinical psychologist based in the London service who was fluent in British Sign Language (BSL).Data collected by the research project, supplemented by information collected routinely by the clinics, were used to evaluate the services.A British Sign Language version of the research findings from this project will be available from this website shortly.

AB - Deaf children are at increased risk for mental health difficulties compared with their hearing peers. Access to high quality, effective mental health services is a key standard of the Children's National Service Framework. There is evidence, however, that deaf children are not accessing mental health support and that generic CAMHS do not have the necessary skills or expertise, such as being able to meet a child's communication needs, and being knowledgeable about deafness and the relationship between mental health and deafness.The first specialist mental health service for deaf children was established in London in 1991. In 2004, two further services (in the West Midlands and York) were funded to extend access. An innovative aspect of this network was the use of teleconferencing (known as the telelink) to facilitate case management and supervision between services, and to allow, where appropriate, children referred to the West Midlands and York services the opportunity to work with a clinical psychologist based in the London service who was fluent in British Sign Language (BSL).Data collected by the research project, supplemented by information collected routinely by the clinics, were used to evaluate the services.A British Sign Language version of the research findings from this project will be available from this website shortly.

KW - ill/disabled children

KW - health services issues

M3 - Other contribution

PB - Social Policy Research Unit, University of York

CY - University of York, York

ER -