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Social Workers in Child Mental Health: Securing a Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2000

Philip Messent
Philip Messent
Affiliation:
Emanuel Miller Centre for Families and Children, The Health Centre, Gill Street, London E14 8HQ
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Abstract

A study was conducted to investigate reductions in the numbers of social work posts located within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the UK. Results suggested that reductions in posts noted in earlier studies are continuing. Interviewees' ideas about factors contributing to the survival of such posts are summarised. The significance of the loss of posts is discussed, with an account of changing ideas about the role of social workers within CAMHS teams, and of an audit undertaken of one service lacking such a post. Conclusions are drawn concerning ways of ensuring the preservation of such posts.

Keywords

Social workchildrenmental health services
Type
Commissioned Review
Information
Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 102 - 107
Copyright
© 2000 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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