A critical analysis of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services policy in England

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dc.contributor.authorCallaghan, Jane E.M. ; Fellin, Lisa Chiara ; Warner-Gale, Fiona
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-29T16:15:25Z
dc.date.available2018-10-29T16:15:25Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractPolicy on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in England has undergone radical changes in the last 15 years, with far reaching implications for funding models, access to services and service delivery. Using corpus analysis and critical discourse analysis, we explore how childhood, mental health and CAMHS are constituted in 15 policy documents, 9 pre-2010 and 6 post-2010. We trace how these constructions have changed over time and consider the practice implications of these changes. We identify how children’s distress is individualised, through medicalising discourses and shifting understandings of the relationship between socio-economic context and mental health. This is evidenced in a shift from seeing children’s mental health challenges as produced by social and economic inequities to a view that children’s mental health must be addressed early to prevent future socio-economic burden. We consider the implications of CAMHS policies for the relationship between children, families, mental health services and the state. The article concludes by exploring how concepts of ‘parity of esteem’ and ‘stigma reduction’ may inadvertently exacerbate the individualisation of children’s mental health. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationCallaghan, Jane E.M. ; Fellin, Lisa Chiara ; Warner-Gale, Fiona. (2017). A critical analysis of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services policy in England. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 22(1), 109-127.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/26087/1/Callaghan%20JCCP%20CAMHS%20policy.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/4012
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherClinical Child Psychology and Psychiatryen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectchild witnessen_US
dc.subjectIntimate partner violenceen_US
dc.subjectpsychological effectsen_US
dc.subjectpolicyen_US
dc.subjectsocial issuesen_US
dc.subjectreviewen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectUnited Kingdomen_US
dc.titleA critical analysis of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services policy in Englanden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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