Improving Access to Mental Health Services for Looked After Children and Young People
Why do you need my help?
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) will often ask foster carers and kinship carers to complete questionnaires about the child/young person as they are usually the person who knows the child best.
We want to know your opinion on two new questionnaires for assessing Looked After children and young people’s strengths and difficulties.
This project hopes to inform better mental health assessment of Looked After children and young people. In the long term this research hopes to contribute to improved access to professional help for Looked After children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
What will you ask me to do?
We would like you to complete some short questionnaires about ONE child or young person currently in your care. You can complete the survey more than once if you care for children of varying ages.
Please click on this link if you currently care for a child between the ages of 4 and 11 years
This study has received favourable approval from the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences Ethics Department at the University of Surrey.
If you have any questions, please contact the research team
Catherine Frogley (Trainee Psychologist) at c.frogley@surrey.ac.uk
Ruth Denton (Trainee Psychologist) at r.denton@surrey.ac.uk