The service configuration with distinct child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services (AMHS) may be a barrier to continuity of care.
Because of a lack of transition policy, CAMHS clinicians have to decide whether and when a young person should transition to AMHS. This study describes which characteristics are associated with the clinicians’ advice to continue treatment at AMHS.
Gerritsen, S. E. Overbeek, M.M., Verhulst, F.C., Wolke, D., et al Milestone Consortium. (2022). Demographic, clinical, and service-use characteristics related to the clinician’s recommendation to transition from child to adult mental health services. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 57, 973-991. https://doi.org/0.1007/s00127-022-02238-6