Contemporary Issues in Health & Social Care

Contemporary Issues in Health &
Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Overview of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) Practice..................1
Contemporary issues in CAHMS Policy................................................................................2
Theories to improve CAHMS services and management......................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Today, in provision of health care services, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary team
contributes an important role, for well-being of patients (McGovern and et. al., 2016). This team
compromises with highly expert professionals and workers, that specialises in different-different
fields. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) is one of the multidisciplinary
team, that actively work in liaison for providing mental and physical health interventions to
children and young people. This NHS service is organised around 4-teir system, where Tier 1
includes general treatment and advice to those children and young people who face less severe
mental health problems and get services by non-mental health specialists such as GP, social
workers, school nurses and voluntary agencies (Stafford and et. al., 2016). Under Tier 2,
specialists mainly work in primary and community care who provides counselling to youths who
are experiencing mental health related issues. Similarly, Tier 3 consists multi-disciplinary team
of professionals that provides specialised services to patients with most severe disorders. Other
than this, the Tier 4 gives a highly specialised services to people with high mental disorders by
outpatient teams, in-patient units and other (Abrines-Jaume and et. al., 2016). These types of
services support people who are facing such issues at early age and provides specific treatment
for well-being. But apart from various advantages, yet there are number of factors present that
decreases the effectiveness of CAHMS service of NHS both at local and national level
(McGovern and et. al., 2016).
The present essay is going to highlight the contemporary issues related with policy and
practice of CAHMS, at national and local level. For this purpose, different articles and journals is
taken to evaluate the issues and how the same can be resolved. For analysing at local level,
London Borough of Camden is chosen, where the way effectiveness of CAHMS practice can be
increased, different models like Lewin's change model, Fayol Management theory, quality
approaches, knowledge of driving and restraining force, regarding with CAMHS etc. are
demonstrated under this essay.
MAIN BODY
Overview of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) Practice
Mental health at early childhood consider as same as solid social or passionate
development, that include things like identifying how to express feelings, developing secure
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