In your article, Beverley Tydeman states that if the Improving Access to Mental Health (IAPT) model is extended to children and young people, it could result in children being stuck in a "revolving door", where they feel "briefly better but then after a while need to be re-referred".
This may happen in some cases; Nice guidance shows that gains from psychological therapies are not always maintained over the longer-term. However, no mental health therapy is permanently effective in 100 per cent of cases. As Nice guidance also recognises, evidence shows sustained periods of psychological therapy to be among the most effective treatments available, particularly in children with depression.
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