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There has been a lot of debate about the terms CAMHS. This project, following the lead from Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Everybody’s Business (National Assembly for Wales, 2001)[1] and Wolpert & Wilson (2003)[2], makes a distinction between Specialist CAMHS and CAMHS or Comprehensive CAMHS. The concept of CAMHS for the project is inclusive, that is the term is taken to mean all of the services, provided by all sectors, that impact on the mental well-being, mental health, mental health problems and mental disorders of children and young people. In adopting this view some services will be brought into the CAMHS arena, on the basis of their ability to influence young people’s mental health that previously, had not considered themselves to be within this field. Commonly, the term CAMHS is taken more narrowly to imply those specialist services provided, mainly but by no means exclusively, by the NHS. For the purpose of the project the term ‘CAMHS’ refers to the whole enterprise and includes services that do not have mental health or providing for children as their only or key tasks. Some refer to this as ‘comprehensive CAMHS’. The term ‘Specialist CAMHS’ will be used to refer to those multidisciplinary services that have a particular role and specialist expertise relating to child and adolescent mental health. To read more about definitions in the area of child and adolescent mental health click here [1]National Assembly for Wales (2001) Child And Adolescent Mental Health Services: Everybody’s Business. Wales [2] Wolpert, M. & Wilson, P. (2003) Million Dollar Question. Young Minds Magazine, 65, 28-29.
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