Thursday 26 April 2012

Bid to improve support for county's young people with mental health issues

A major initiative to improve the support provided to young people in the South of England with mental health issues will be launched today (Tuesday).

More young people in Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bath and North East Somerset, Dorset and Gloucestershire are set to benefit from ‘Children and Young People’s IAPT’ (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) which enables clinicians to be trained to provide therapies that address depression, anxiety and other behavioural problems.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, which provides young people’s mental health services to a number of counties in the South, and The Charlie Waller Institute at the University of Reading, are jointly involved in a three-year pilot project that began last November.

Full Article on Gazette and Herald

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