Monitoring of physical health parameters on a child and adolescent mental health unit receiving antipsychotic therapy

"In the adolescent unit, we identified a significant lack of physical health monitoring in this high risk age group. A single paged prompt sheet has been shown to significantly improve physical health monitoring in the majority of parameters."

Monitoring of physical health parameters for inpatients on a child and adolescent mental health unit receiving regular antipsychotic therapy
N Pasha, S Saeed, K Drewek
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u202645.w3700

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Investing in children's mental health

"Our review of the evidence shows that for all these conditions there are interventions that are not only effective in improving outcomes but also good value for money, in some cases outstandingly so, as measured by the surplus of measurable economic benefits over the costs of intervention." 

Investing in children's mental health: A review of evidence on the costs and benefits of increased service provision
L Khan, M Parsonage, J Stubbs
Centre Forum’s Mental Health Commission, Centre for Mental Health
February 2015

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Children's and adolescents' mental health and CAMHS

"There are serious and deeply ingrained problems with the commissioning and provision of Children’s and adolescents’ Mental Health Services. These run through the whole system from prevention and early intervention through to inpatient services for the most vulnerable young people."

Children's and adolescents' mental health and CAMHS: Third Report of Session 2014–15
House of Commons Health Committee
October 2014

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Learning modules to support the implementation of evidence-informed practice

The Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health has produced a set of online modules to support the implementation of evidence-informed practice. They work most effectively in Internet Explorer, and cover the following topics:

• Opening module
• Leading organizational change
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Needs assessment
• Implementing evidence-informed practices
• Monitoring and evaluating outcomes
• Closing module

Access the modules here.