Resources for Professionals

In this section you will find information and resources for those looking to work in, currently working in, or commissioning and delivering services who wish to know more about child and adolescent psychotherapy and its role in providing safe and effective care for infants, children, young people and families.

Comprehensive CAMHS

Child and adolescent psychotherapy is a core NHS profession, recognised as an important component of comprehensive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

National Priorities

National health service priority areas to which CAPTs are making significant contributions: looked-after children, schools, perinatal, eating disorders and adolescents in crisis

Short-Term Psychotherapy

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists are able to provide a range of brief interventions and short-term psychotherapy

 

Working with Complexity

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists work with some of the most vulnerable and deeply troubled children and young people in society

 

NICE Guidelines

Child and adolescent psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy is recommended in key NICE and SCIE guidelines

 

Leadership & Supervision

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists play a crucial role in providing training, case consultation, support, supervision and specialist clinical leadership

Guidance on COVID-19

Guidance provided to ACP members on working during the pandemic which may be of interest to other professionals

Evidence Base

The evidence-base for psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents