1. Adoption and attachment

... He started to develop a stutter and became very scared of insignificant things. After a fight to get a referral to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), Daniel was also diagnosed with attachment ...

2. The roots of school refusal

... only for unauthorized pupil absentees, a much larger group than school refusers. Most epidemiological studies have come from mental health literature. These study findings, extrapolated from referrals ...

3. Legal help for autistic

... is particularly keen to take on cases aimed at tackling the problems faced by the over 70 per cent of children with autism who also have mental health problems. This follows the findings of a recent NAS ...

4. Young book reviewers sought

Aspiring book reviewers are being invited to produce a shortlist for the YoungMinds Book Award 2010. The UK charity, which promotes children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, has selected ...

5. NHS failing children with autism

Thousands of children with autism have to live with mental health problems because the NHS does not know how to help them, says a new report by the National Autistic Society (NAS). In a survey of over ...

6. CAMHS need stronger leadership

Stronger and more coherent leadership is needed in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), claims the first report from the National Advisory Council (NAC) for Children’s Mental Health and ...

7. Mental health assessment goes online

A new internet tool to help practitioners and carers assess an individual's mental health capacity has been launched by the Mental Health Foundation and its sister organisation the Foundation for People ...

8. Ambidextrous children linked to ADHD

Children who are ambidextrous are at a greater risk of having mental health problems and experience greater difficulties with language and general schooling than those who are right or left handed, says ...

9. Landmark autism Bill passed

... chief executive, Mark Lever, said; “Thousands of adults with autism told us they were experiencing serious mental health difficulties due to a lack of support. After a year of lobbying, this is the watershed ...

10. Mencap founder honoured on stamp

Judy Fryd, the founder of the Mencap mental health charity, is to appear in a series of stamps celebrating Eminent Britons. The series, to be issued by the Royal mail on 8 October 2009, features historic ...

11. Young people launch mental health manifesto

A national panel of young people with mental health problems issued a manifesto to politicians in July to highlight changes they say are needed to improve mental health services. Organised by charity YoungMinds, ...

12. More teachers seek help with mental health

A charity providing telephone and online support for teachers experiencing common mental health problems has seen a marked increase in its service use over the past year. The Teacher Support Network fielded ...

13. Asperger's syndrome

... any understanding of the needs of their users? Dinesh is currently undertaking temporary training at a café, through the mental health team he was referred to at the point of transition to adult services. ...

14. Attachment disorder in practice

... who work with young people who present with suspected mental health difficulties, one of the key questions each time a child is referred is why the child is behaving in the way that they are (whether this ...

15. Beating bullying: supporting children with disabilities and SEN

...  Bullying has an adverse effect on mental health, achievement and self-esteem, and can be a hugely distressing and destructive experience for the child concerned and their families. In January, Sarah ...

16. About SEN Magazine

... Down's syndrome) mental health literacy and numeracy visual and hearing impairments behaviour teaching children with special educational needs general issues of education, care and government ...