Waiting for CAMHS: worsening symptoms and strained families

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Qualitative study reveals young people on CAMHS waiting lists feel alone and dismissed, with mental health deteriorating while they wait. Communication and interim support urgently needed.

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Healing takes time: Can cognitive therapy for PTSD help young people in CAMHS? Insights from DECRYPT

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PTSD in young people is common, complex, and often entangled with depression, anxiety, and multiple traumatic experiences. A major new UK trial (DECRYPT) tested whether a structured form of trauma-focused cognitive therapy (CT-PTSD) can work in real CAMHS settings for those with the most severe difficulties.

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suPAR step forward? Teenage trauma linked to chronic inflammation in new study

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Not all childhood trauma has the same biological impact. A new study finds that adversity in late childhood is most strongly linked to immune dysregulation at age 24.

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“I don’t need a cup of tea, I need some @#$%&! help”: #camhs through the lens of TikTok

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Young people also posted videos that shared their positive experiences of CAMHS, where they felt listened to and meaningfully involved in their treatment. In some cases, CAMHS was experienced as lifesaving.

Nina Higson-Sweeney summarises a qualitative study exploring the #camhs hashtag on TikTok and how young people experience child and adolescent mental health services.

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On the outside, looking in: sibling experiences of adolescent inpatient mental health care

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Findings from McGrath et al. (2024) emphasise the importance of clinicians taking the whole family into consideration when a young person is admitted to an inpatient unit.

Lottie Shipp appraises a qualitative study that explored young people’s experiences of their sibling being admitted to a mental health inpatient unit.

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Digitally augmented CBT for child anxiety is more efficient and no less effective than typical parent-led CBT

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Helen Dodd summarises a recent non-inferiority randomised controlled trial led by Cathy Creswell, which investigated the effectiveness of digitally augmented parent-led CBT for child anxiety.

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Building bridges between schools and mental health services to improve youth mental health support

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In her latest blog, Ariadna Albajara Saenz summarises a recent paper reporting on two pilot trials exploring partnerships between schools and mental health services to test the utilisation and acceptability of specialist liaison and teacher skills training.

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What factors predict youth mental health service use?

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In her debut blog, Oleta Williams writes with Nick Meader and Nina Higson-Sweeney to summarise a secondary analysis of NHS administrative data to identify predictors of mental health service use in children and young people.

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Prediction of psychosis and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents: the role of CAMHS

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Matthew Broome considers a Finnish study on the potential of predicting psychosis and bipolar disorder in young people who have previously used child and adolescent mental health services.

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