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Five Years After the Mental Health Act: Mental Health Legislation, Services and Support in Scotland
Tuesday 2nd September, 2008 @ Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
This conference will provide a forum to contribute to the Scottish Government’s review of the Act. Delegates will have the opportunity to make their voices heard on the key issues being examined by the Mental Health Act and review, and debate current and future challenges for mental health in Scotland.
Full details can be found at www.holyrood.com/mentalhealth
The HandsOnScotland Website is one year old on 6 June 2008. Over the past year there have been over 20,000 visitors to the site (www.handsonscotland.co.uk ).
The website was commissioned by the Scottish Government through Heads up Scotland and was developed by Playfield Institute (NHS Fife) in partnership with Barnardo's and the University of Dundee. It was developed to help frontline workers, such as teachers, nurses, social workers, and foster carers, to improve the mental health of children and young people.
It is a one-stop shop for practical information and techniques on how to respond helpfully to children and young people's troubling behaviour, build up their self-esteem and promote their positive mental wellbeing.
The website contains 48 topics within 14 sections that cover a wide range of mental health issues ranging from abuse to sleeping difficulties. There are also 25 sets of videos from specialists giving tips and advice. The site is continually evolving: each section has a feedback form, and comments from these forms have resulted in the website team adding or changing information and advice.
A post-launch evaluation involving over 60 workers has been completed. Overall, the feedback was positive, and all workers in the study reported that they would use the website again in the future as well as recommend it to others. The evaluation also showed that over 2-3 months of using the website, the workers increased their understanding of troubling behaviours and their confidence increased. They also reported feeling more supported in their work.
Scottish Managed Clinical Network for Children with Complex Mental Health Needs
Download their first newsletter here
Association of Child and Adolescent Primary Mental Health Workers: National Conference & AGM - Thursday 18th & Friday 19th September , 2008
Download the Conference flyer and booking form here
Listen Up! A project by the Mental Health Foundation
Consultation with young people to explore in greater depth young people’s actual experiences of using services. More information on the project can be found here.
Infant Mental Health Report
This guide has been produced to support all with an interest in bringing about change and improvement in the care and support offered to parents of new babies and to support and inform the commitments within Delivering for Mental Health and to respond to the Delivering for Health commitment to progress The Mental Health of Children and Young People: A Framework for Promotion, Prevention and Care.
Infant Mental Health: A Guide for Practitioners (PDF, 1MB)
Introduction to Child & Adolescent Mental Health: National Inter-Agency Training Resource
Inter-Agency Training Resource (PDF, 1.28mb)
Consensus Competition and Conflict 1 (PDF, 11kb)
Consensus Competition and Conflict 2 (PDF, 11kb)
Consensus Competition and Conflict 3 (PDF, 11kb)
Consensus Competition and Conflict 4 (PDF, 11kb)
Inter-Agency Training Advert (Word, 77kb)
Inter-Agency Training Presentation (PowerPoint, 1.23mb)
Programme Outline
(Word, 64kb)
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Primary Mental Health Work
A sub-group of the Scottish Executive Children and Young People’s Health Support Group has produced guidance intended to inform consideration by NHS Boards and partners on the steps toward implementation of the Delivering for Mental Health commitments and the earlier Framework.
In Ma Heid, Oot Ma Heid
This was a one-day conference on the 20th November, 2006, which aimed to get young people talking about mental health issues and feed into the HeadsUpScotland annual conference on the 12th December, 2006. The following documents report the findings:
Final Report: In Ma Heid, Oot Ma Heid - Summary (PDF)
Final Report: In Ma Heid, Oot Ma Heid (PDF)
IMHPA (Database Project)
Looked After & Accomodated Children
New to CAMHS Teaching Package
New to CAMHS PACKAGE
The New to CAMHS pack is the first National training pack for professionals who are new to working in NHS CAMHS services. In October, a two day ‘train the trainers’ event was held. Ten CAMHS professionals from across Scotland attended and these trainers will now go on to support a managed roll-out of the pack, teaching those who will act as facilitators (mentors) for staff undertaking the pack across Scotland. This will be achieved through the offer of a number of one-day training workshops throughout the country. Once in use within service areas, the pack will also be subject to evaluation. It is hoped that the first training workshops will take place from January 2007.
For more information contact: Ian.Seymour@nes.scot.nhs.uk
New To CAMHS: Teaching Package (pdf)
New To CAMHS: Teaching Package Handbook (pdf)
Database Development Project
Database Development Project (PDF)
Database Development Project -SUMMARY- (PDF)
CAMHS Workforce Statistics Report
Aware Project Evaluation
Aware is an acronym for Awareness of promoting Wellbeing through Activity, Relaxation and Emotional health. The project has been running in seven pilot schools in Highland over the academic year 2005/6 and is funded by HeadsUp Scotland. This first report of the AWARE project presents the findings of an 'in-house' evaluation. Download the Evaluation Report here.
