1st appointment for assessment for CAMHS

[purpleme12]

What happens at first appointment for CAMHS?
What questions do they ask?

That's interesting

Had you mentioned it might be neuro diversity?
When you were discussing that, was your daughter there?

Yes i guess I don't trust the process

Ill have a look and see what I can find. It might take me a little while because she's 13 and been under mental health services since she was about 6yrs old so theres lots of reports and "stuff".

Are they querying ND or just mental health? As that would made a difference to what questionnaires they do too.

The children's ones are usually written differently. Whereas the parent one might ask "Has your child seemed low in mood". The child one would say "i have felt happy" and the answers would say not at all, sometimes, often etc. They get the same information and the marks are adjusted for the scoring system.

Thanks that is really interesting and helpful

I am not sure what they would be querying on their side. They probably not querying neurodiversity although I would not rule this out. But I find it hard to her across what she's like adequately so people know.

It all stemmed from what we'd put on the referral.

Yes DC was there for the conversation.

They were not there to diagnose, but to triage onto the right "pathway" for further assessment (or discharge). The only question is whether enough flags are raised in a particular field to warrant exploring it more. Some of the screenings are pretty quick. Like I said for your daughter, perhaps you yourself should write down some notes on what feels the most important for you to say.

I think I am going to write notes yes

Don't have anything to do with that. Your choice

What do you mean?