Improved and timely treatment for children and adolescents referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
The purpose of work package 4 is to ensure earlier access to relevant treatment for children and young people in need of treatment in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
This will happen within multiple areas, which is also where families experience facing a bottleneck in the system
- Referral pathway
- Waiting time
- Duration of diagnostic assessment
- Treatment
Models and methods are meant to ensure that children and parents are getting the right help at the right time and that the whole family feel like they are receiving help.
As part of work package 4, Best for Us will develop new family-focused forms of care, which can be offered early in the course of assessment and treatment across diagnoses. Additionally, new digital treatment offers will be implemented, including virtual reality-supported therapy.
Both the Family Team and PROM, developed in work package 2, and the Family’s Digital Toolbox, developed in work package 3, will be implemented to support faster assessments along with improved and more coherent courses of treatment, that involve children, adolescents, and parents to strengthen their voice in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
All activities in work package 4 share the purpose of
- Reducing the path to proper help by extended child and adolescent psychiatric consulting with general practice and professionals from municipalities, speedier diagnostic assessment, and early-onset family-focused treatment.
- Implementing evidence-based digital assessment tools into routine clinical practice.
- Providing family-focused care within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
- Improving coordination of care across the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
- Developing and evaluating new digital treatment modalities within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
Increasing capacity of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services through the introduction of evidence-based digital health solutions within assessment and treatment.
Responsible
The overall responsible for work package 4 are Professor Marlene Briciet Lauritsen, MD and Head of Research Unit for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and ph.d., MD and Project Manager Anna Sofie Kjærgaard Hansen from the Research Unit for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, North Denmark.
There is a close collaboration with the departments of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services from the other regions regarding the development and testing of different care initiatives in work package 4.