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The Adopted Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (AdCAMHS) is jointly run and funded by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and East Sussex County Council.
Set up in February 2014, it supports adopted children and young people and their adoptive families who are struggling emotionally through consultations, assessments and treatments.
The service is based on understanding the nature of difficulties around being adopted and offers tailored expertise and therapy to children and families referred to it by the council's post-adoption team.
Alison Roy is a senior child psychotherapist and the clinical lead at AdCAMHS. She says the service sees a range of issues affecting children and their families, from early trauma, neglect and deprivation, to adoptive families reporting they are struggling to cope and wish for the child or young person to be taken back into care.
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