The FAQs listed below may give you
answers your questions about the project
Why
do we need a Children and Young People's IAPT project?
Children and
Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are already established and routinely
offer psychological services. The IAPT programme was initially established to provide
primary care psychological support for people of working age having
depression or anxiety. Our project is about transforming existing services for
children and adolescents by adopting those elements of IAPT programme which
will help improve services to Children and Young People. We will do this
by :
- Working in partnership with children and young people to shape their local services
- improving the workforce through training in best evidence based practice
- developing mechanisms to deliver frequent/session by session outcome monitoring to help the therapist and service user work together in their session, and help the supervisor support the therapist to improve the outcomes
- Supporting local areas to improve their infrastructure to collect and analyse the data to see if children and young people are getting better.
How
have Young People been involved so far?
YoungMinds, the
mental health charity for children and young people, has been working with us
to identify the key issues for young people and will continue to work with us
to ensure children and young people are able to work in partnership with
us. It is very important that children and young people are involved at a
local as well as strategic level and this is a requirement for sites who are or
wish to be part of the project.(Read more on the external website here)
Which
conditions and therapies will be included in the Children and Young People's
IAPT project ?
Children and
Young People's IAPT is a three year project. Initially , the project has developed a curriculum and training package
based around the following conditions and treatments:
- for a range of emotional disorders such as anxiety and depressive disorders , OCD and PTSD -manualised implementation the evidence based BT or CBT treatment packages
- for behavioural problems in 3-10 year olds (Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder) - parenting programmes such as Webster Stratton[1].
Other
conditions and evidence based therapies will be considered for future years.
Why
will the project require services to collect outcome data?
One of the benefits of the IAPT approach is that routine, session by session outcome monitoring is embedded into the programme. The Children and Young People's IAPT sites will also collect sessional data to support children and young people to get better, as they and their therapist can see improvement, and action can be taken where improvement is slower than expected.
Having robust outcome data for IAPT services also helps commissioners. Commissioners will increasingly require demonstrable and robust outcomes data from all services. CAMHS will be competing in a marketplace of services where difficult decisions and prioritisation of resources is the norm. A service that can demonstrate it is effective and good value for money is more likely to be funded than one which cannot demonstrate the outcome of its work.
What
outcome measures are proposed and how will they be selected??
There has been a
group looking at Outcomes and Evaluation. For information about routine outcome monitoring, support for
clinicians and therapists and the resources go to http://www.iapt.nhs.uk/cyp-iapt/routine-outcome-monitoring-as-part-of-iapt/
What
is the Project Governance?
The Children
and Young People's IAPT project is led by the Children and Families Division
within the Department of Health, reporting to the IAPT Programme Board.
The project is supported by an Expert Reference Group (ERG) chaired by the National Clinical Director for Children, Young People and Maternity, with members representing a range of interests to advise on the delivery of the project. The ERG has established a series of Task and Finish groups, where the work shaping the products will be carried out. Each of the Task and Finish Chairs has established virtual groups (‘e-groups') of professionals who will be taking part in the work of the Task and Finish Groups.
In addition, there are two further, wider independent groups to act as ‘critical friends'.
- The British Psychological Society and Royal College of Psychiatrists are jointly hosting an independent group of professionals including nurses, social workers, family therapists, commissioners and voluntary sector organisations.
- The mental health charity YoungMinds is hosting a group of young people and children to give their advice from the earliest possible stage.
The day to day planning and coordination is through a small project group. The project group is taking the lead in forming links to other Government Departments interested in the project.
How
was the National Curriculum for CBT and Parenting developed?
The curriculum was
developed by the Education and Curriculum Task and Finish Group, chaired by
the National Clinical Lead for Children and Young Peoples IAPT. The
draft curriculum was published on 13 June 2011, and has been amended following
responses to the draft. The final
curriculum is available at .click here for National Curriculum http://www.iapt.nhs.uk/cyp-iapt/cyp-national-curriculum/
How
will HEIs be selected to supply the training?
An application
process took place in 2011, which led to the appointment of for HEIs. In London, UCL and KCL are working
together. The other two HEIs are Salfrod
Training Centre and Readin University.
There is a fresh application process for 2012-13 for new Learning
Collaboratives which is at http://www.iapt.nhs.uk/cyp-iapt/children-and-young-peoples-iapt-project--launch-of-offer-for-201213/
I would like to work for a Children and Young People's IAPT service, what should I do and how can I apply?
If you want to be part of the project, you need to be working in one of the sites selected as part of phase one through a competitive process, and to fit the competency profile required by the teaching organisation to receive the training. If you are interested in working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, the best thing to do is contact your local providers about what opportunities might be open to you .
For a key facts briefing - click here
For any other
queries related to the Children and Young People's IAPT project or the IAPT
Programme please refer to www.iapt.nhs.uk or Contact
Us
[1] IMPROVING TIER 2-3 CAMHS:REVISED PROPOSAL R. Layard, A. York, R Kelvin LSE 2009