Improving Mental Health Services for Young Adults
In-Person Event
Nov 19, 2018
London, England, GB
OVERVIEW
Improving Mental Health Services for Young Adults is organized by Healthcare (HC) - UK Conferences and will be held on Nov 19, 2018 at De Vere West One, London, England, United Kingdom.
Course Description:
This conference is focused on improving mental health services for young adults and smoothing the transition from child to adult mental health services in line with the recommendations from HSIB, the CQC review into child mental health and the recent government Green Paper.
Young people using child and adolescent mental health services would benefit from a flexible, managed transition to adult mental healthservices which has been carefully planned with the young person, provides continuity of care and follow-up after transition. A duration ofshared-care would help to ensure readiness and continuity for the young person.
• Young people and their families may also benefit from the use of tools in their transition planning to allow for structured conversations and to empower them to ask questions and take ownership of their diagnosis, needs and treatment.
• In the acute and mental health trusts visited, there were no standardised methods or tools used to manage transition. However, we did find that acute trusts were more likely to plan transition over a longer period of time and to use tools to bring some standardisation to the process.
• There is evidence that moving to a flexible model which has the capacity to provide mental health services up to the age of 25, can minimise some of the barriers and reduce the risks associated with transition.
• Research suggests that young people want flexible services which do not have strict ‘cut-off’ points. Flexible services are especially important for young people with emotional problems, complex needs, mild learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorder, for whom there are limited available services in the adult mental health setting.
• Significant efforts are being taken to improve early intervention services for young people. Research indicates that early intervention reduces the impact on both the young person and subsequently the NHS through improved outcomes and a reduction in the need for longer-term resources.
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.
Course Description:
This conference is focused on improving mental health services for young adults and smoothing the transition from child to adult mental health services in line with the recommendations from HSIB, the CQC review into child mental health and the recent government Green Paper.
Young people using child and adolescent mental health services would benefit from a flexible, managed transition to adult mental healthservices which has been carefully planned with the young person, provides continuity of care and follow-up after transition. A duration ofshared-care would help to ensure readiness and continuity for the young person.
• Young people and their families may also benefit from the use of tools in their transition planning to allow for structured conversations and to empower them to ask questions and take ownership of their diagnosis, needs and treatment.
• In the acute and mental health trusts visited, there were no standardised methods or tools used to manage transition. However, we did find that acute trusts were more likely to plan transition over a longer period of time and to use tools to bring some standardisation to the process.
• There is evidence that moving to a flexible model which has the capacity to provide mental health services up to the age of 25, can minimise some of the barriers and reduce the risks associated with transition.
• Research suggests that young people want flexible services which do not have strict ‘cut-off’ points. Flexible services are especially important for young people with emotional problems, complex needs, mild learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorder, for whom there are limited available services in the adult mental health setting.
• Significant efforts are being taken to improve early intervention services for young people. Research indicates that early intervention reduces the impact on both the young person and subsequently the NHS through improved outcomes and a reduction in the need for longer-term resources.
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.
KEY DATES
19 Nov, 2018
Event Start Date
19 Nov, 2018
Event End Date
SPECIALITIES
Mental Health and LawSUGGESTED HOTELS
CONFERENCE VENUE
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