Inspectors found that a lack of shared definitions around mental healthterminology hampered professionals.
Healthy Minds: Promoting Emotional Health and Well-being in Schools alsofound training tended to focus on managing behaviour rather thanpromoting a positive approach to relationships and conflictresolution.
The news follows the Healthcare Commission's State of Healthcare report,which flagged up the lack of co-ordination between mental healthservices and youth offending teams when young people left prison.
Dinah Morley, deputy director of Young Minds, said it was important foryouth offending teams to include a child and adolescent mental healthspecialist, and warned that the majority of health leads in teams didnot have mental health training.
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