Impact of a collaborative model on community clinician confidence in child and adolescent mental health care, wellbeing, and access to child psychiatry expertise.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase in child and adolescent mental health disorders, with subsequent worsening of patient access to specialist mental health care. Clinicians working in the community were faced with increased demands to diagnose and manage pediatric mental health disorders, without always having the confidence and knowledge to do so. We therefore developed COnnecting Mental-health PAediatric Specialists and community Services (COMPASS)-a collaborative model designed to upskill community clinicians in child and adolescent mental health care and provide them with better access to child and adolescent psychiatry expertise. COMPASS comprises (1) an online Community of Practice (CoP) with fortnightly one-hour sessions covering: anxiety; aggre

SUBMITTER: D'Abaco E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11419376 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature