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What is mental health

WEBabout camhs. What is Mental Health? We all have a mental health – whether it is good, bad or in the middle. Put simply, your mental health is the way you feel on any particular day. Our mental health and wellbeing can also be known as our "emotional wellbeing". Generally, we all have days where we feel good and days when we don’t.

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Depression — CAMHS

WEBYoung Minds gives free, relevant, practical information about a range of mental health issues in children and young people. It has information about feelings and symptoms, conditions and looking after yourself. It also has some specific information about self-harm and what to do about self-harm.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) — CAMHS

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Low Self Esteem — CAMHS

WEBYoung Minds gives free, relevant, practical information about a range of mental health issues in children and young people. It has information about feelings and symptoms, conditions and looking after yourself. It also has some specific information about self-harm and what to do about self-harm.

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Common Problems for Age 11–17 — CAMHS

WEBYou might have heard of a few different mental health problems. Here are some of the common ones that teenagers can experience: ADHD. Anger and Aggression. Anxiety. Bereavement. Depression. Eating Disorders. Low Self Esteem.

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Suicidal Thoughts in ASD — CAMHS

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Specialist Community Advisers — CAMHS

WEBHow to contact your local Specialist Community Advisor. If you are a professional and need non-urgent advice, please email our team direct and one of the SCA’s will contact you to arrange a consultation. Our email address is: [email protected]. If your concern is more urgent and you need more rapid advice during working hours, please

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Anxiety in ASD — CAMHS

WEBAnxiety is commonly seen in young people with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis. They have to make sense of a world that may be hard for them to understand, to deal with sensory overload, environments that may not meet their needs and navigate sometimes confusing and unpredictable social situations.

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Depression in LD — CAMHS

WEBcommon symptoms of depression in a young person with a learning disability may include: Loss of appetite or increase in appetite. Changes in sleep pattern. Loss of interest in usual motivators. Apparent loss of skills. Increase in challenging behaviour/irritability/anxiety. Withdrawal from daily routines/motivating activities.

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Challenging Behaviour Assessment — CAMHS

WEBlearning disabilities. Challenging Behaviour Assessment: A Mental health and behavioural difficulties screening questionnaire for Young people with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder. About the Screening Tool. We have developed a short simple questionnaire that is made up of risk factors for challenging behaviours / mental

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Exam Pressure — CAMHS

WEBIn addition to the challenges young people face every day and in school, exam periods can be particularly stressful times. Exam stress can occur when a young person feels they cannot cope with revision, and this may lead to worries about …

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Difficulties Attending School — CAMHS

WEB"Truancy" refers to young people who avoid attending school without their carer’s knowledge, whereas "school refusal" is when a child or young person starts to miss school frequently because of vague illnesses or symptoms.

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Anger and Aggression — CAMHS

WEBCONSIDER SEEKING HELP: When the anger occurs together with other worrying behaviours or psychological problems (e.g. self harm). If there is a pattern of repetitive, persistent and excessive antisocial, aggressive or …

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Sensory Processing — CAMHS

WEBSight. Taste(gustatory) Smell(olfactory) Hearing(auditory) Touch(tactile) Proprioception(using our muscles to understand where our body is in space) Vestibular(the sense of how the body moves against gravity) The last 3 sensory systems – touch, proprioception and vestibular – help us to feel in tune with our world and to feel …

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Other Support Services — CAMHS

WEBMental Health Support is available in Derbyshire for Parents, Professionals, and Young People. The NHS Derby & Derbyshire Emotional Health & Wellbeing Toolkit has been designed collaboratively by professionals who work across Derby & Derbyshire to help plan and deliver care & support for people who are feeling stressed, anxious or depressed, or …

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Communication Problems — CAMHS

WEBWhat you can do as a parent/carer. There are many things you can do to help: Say the child’s name to get their attention before giving an instruction.. Give time for the child to process your instructions and to respond.. Simplify your language, use short clear sentences.. Speak in a positive form (e.g. say, “walk” instead of “don’t run”).. When you …

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Toileting and ASD — CAMHS

WEB1. ENFORCING BOWEL CONTROL IS NOT HELPFUL. Although it’s important to have clear boundaries and routines to support children with ASD to understand what is expected of them, it’s essential to understand that enforcing bowel control could exacerbate existing problems.The child must be ready.. Never use punishment when toilet-training.Making …

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Challenging Behaviour — CAMHS

WEBChallenging behaviour is any behaviour that someone displays that is a challenge for others to manage and/or puts the young person or others at risk. Lots of young people with learning disabilities have behaviours that challenge. There are lots of different types of challenging behaviour and behaviours that one person finds challenging another

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Bereavement — CAMHS

WEBTHINGS TO THINK ABOUT. All of the many different emotions that children have during bereavement are completely natural and normal. Some of the reactions can be unexpected or surprising and may seem inappropriate to adults (e.g. they may be deeply distressed one minute, then ask if they can go out to play) but this is normal and doesn’t mean that the …

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