The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme, which until now has been aimed largely at adults, is to be adapted for children and young people over the next four years as part of a commitment in the government's mental health strategy (see box). Work on the programme, aimed primarily at people with depression and anxiety disorders, starts this month.
Beverley Tydeman, ACP chair, said the scheme has the potential to help tackle unmet needs for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). But she warned that the IAPT model could result in children being stuck in a "revolving door" to services, where they feel "briefly better but then after a while need to be re-referred".
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