Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, thus CAMHS

[chocolatelife]

Why do posters insists on calling it CAHMS?

is it so it is untraceable?

I think of it as CAMHS in my head, but the clinic my child attends seems to be called something completely unrelated. It's got 'Family' in the title, can't remember the rest.

The worse his health becomes, the more acronyms we encounter: PTSD, EMDR, SSRI, CAF, TAF...

I am usually as pedantic as anyone, but once I get to the desperation point of asking strangers online for help about my child's mental health, getting an acronym correct is the least of my concerns.

Gosh.
You are incredibly fortunate if this is all you have to worry about op.

oh dont worrry Baddz, i have plenty of crises in my life, as much as the next man, if not more

Call it what you will, just please give my son an appointment!

I think they're not really going through each word when they spell it and just thinking of it as an actual word. I'd pronounce camhs similar to calms/carms or maybe cams, but either way it then feels right to put the h after the a instead. Cahms/calms/carms.

that makes sense bertie,
people are thinking Calms

I also refer to it as SHIT.

Nuff said.

I also refer to it as shit. Staffed by people who don't give a monkeys.

totally what Noeuf says!

Trenzalore, I really want to like your post!
Our experience is that they cannot be bothered to return calls or provide updates and probably make things up.

SHIT oh yes, it will forever now be renamed to the better description of the service.

SHIT projector's who can't write factually correct notes.

Or who completely mislay a child's file when he is acutely unwell; with the consequence that weekly appointments suddenly become a two month gap with no explanation...

Or completely mess up a situation, blame the parents entirely, leading to a monumental cock up and serious consequences. But , of course we must call them by the correct name .

Then tell you it's tricky for them to write to others they gave the wrong information to. Thankfully the blamed parent learned their lesson and covertly recorded the second time. So the parent couldn't be blamed the second time.

Oh I'm itching to reveal how cheap they are but having formally complained it would be obvious who I am!

Crap! Not cheap!

Its an official NHS abbreviation-used to be called Child and Family Guidance in the past but changed name late 80s early 90s
The title is only the tip of the iceberg re the ridiculous abbreviations they use.

SHAMS would be better.

SHAMS or SHIT sound about right here :)
Wonder if they realise how unhelpful they are sometimes.

Oh come on OP. The people who are using this abbreviation on mumsnet will most likely be going through hell and you want to nitpick over a misplaced letter?

Not helpful or nice at all.

Now we also have ECP, no EHCP plan, no EHC plan, no EHPC careplan... WTF is it???

I have been teaching it to myself in the shower so I don't sound like a numpty... no other bugger is doing any better though.

I might call it a DoPKAS (document previously known as statement).

I might call it a DoPKAS (document previously known as statement).

This I love!

Or completely mess up a situation, blame the parents entirely, leading to a monumental cock up and serious consequences. But , of course we must call them by the correct name hmm

^^ This.