A Career in CAMHS Psychiatry – Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services

A Career in CAMHS Psychiatry – Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services

the part of the cartridge that focuses on the well-being of young people and it’s fun literally not to up to their 18th birthday and can include a range of mental health problems all the way from developmental disorders like autistic spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorders to your core psychiatric conditions like mood disorders and psychotic illnesses and it was working in a multidisciplinary team systemically with other agencies as well as the young person I like working with young people I like looking at young people and the families I like it that it isn’t the the conditions still developing so it’s not very black-and-white you have to think a lot you have to make sure you’re questioning everything you do and you’re formulating which is a key part of psychiatry it’s difficult with other parts of psychiatry where a lot of the illness is already developed whilst internal Adolescent Mental Health we work with them right at the beginning so we have the opportunity to change that trajectory that is the one big chance to get it as right as we can to make a difference for these young people in the future the advantage of child Adolescent Mental Health Services is you don’t work on your own you have a multidisciplinary team that includes psychologist occupational therapist speech and language therapist education which is a big part if you’re an inpatient unit actually schools within the inpatient unit so they don’t fit outside you’ve got the advantage of working systemically and that means you work not just with the young person but you work with the systems around them so their family being the key bit but you go out to schools and you work with the school teams you work with your services that I am offender teams if required you might need to work with the extended family carers social services the key parts of it and it’s quite satisfying because you get to do all the leads or you get to do your complete detailed assessment you then work with the young person and the family and make things better for them the team was so friendly and that allowed me to get used to the team very quickly and also I was able to get involved in so many more activities and learning opportunities and in comparison to other jobs within the West Midlands we large peer group which i think is really important for support bouncing ideas off of each other and I think we’re the biggest peer group outside of London we have some large national centers within the West Midlands so you can do friends at Cannes you can do learning disability cans because an eating disorder in patient cams unit so you can get all of that within the same trust and the same deanery or as I think a lot of other people doing cams within the UK we have to move out to be Nuri’s to get that kind of experience as a Cam’s psychiatrist you can really make a difference to these young people’s lives most adult mental health problems have their origins in childhood and development so to be able to change the course of a young person’s life for me is the most fulfilling thing about being a child psychiatrist for any trainee is thinking about a career within psychiatry and life’s working with a range of different people and is interested in people at the whole system then Kansas a specialty for you so I’d like to say welcome and see is what in the future

A short introduction to one of the six specialisms within the field of Psychiatry – CAMHS Psychiatry or Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services