THE CHALLENGE
Addressing the needs of young people with mental health difficulties can be problematic in mainstream services. Practitioners may lack the skills to identify problems, leading to symptoms being seen merely as troublesome behaviour, and mental health professionals inevitably focus on those with the greatest needs.
Vicki Coppock, a reader in social work and mental health at Edge Hill University in Lancashire, was concerned that an overly medicalised approach to dealing with child and adolescent mental health was failing to address the needs of young people.
THE SOLUTION
Coppock developed a programme for practitioners on child and adolescent mental health. This attracted the interest of Liverpool Mental Health Awareness.
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