Clinicians in Child and Adolescent Mental Healthcare Services (CAMHS) face the challenge to determine who is at risk of persistence of depressive problems into adulthood and requires continued treatment after reaching the CAMHS upper age limit of care-provision. We assessed whether risk factors for persistence were related to CAMHS clinicians’ transition recommendations. We concluded that
transition recommendations and need for continued treatment are based on clinical expertise, rather than self-reported problems and needs. Read the article here.
