Iapt Essay

‘Critically discuss the Basic Skills Component Domains within the Children and Young People’s IAPT Project and the challenges in applying them in your service.’

1. Introduction
This paper will focus on Evidence-Based Psychological Treatment for Children and Young People and aim to critically discuss the Basic Skills Component Domains within this area. It will look at the challenges of applying them to the authors work setting of Tier 3 Children and Adolescent Mental health service (CAMHS).
This paper has been divided into four parts. The first section defines and gives a brief explanation of the Basic Skills Component Domains of working with Children and young people including- Core competences for working with children and young people, Fundamental Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Skills, Fundamental parent training skills, Cultural aspects of childhood and Parenting, Working with groups of young people and parents, Service user participation, Treatment outcomes and evaluation, assessment of common childhood disorders and supervision for CBT and Parenting. The second section of the essay critically discusses the challenges of applying the Basic Skills Component Domains to a Tier 3 CAMHS setting. The third section concludes the implications of applying these domains to the workplace and suggests further areas of development for the Children’s and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) project. 2. Core competences for working with children and young people
As part of the Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service (CYP IAPT) functions/competences and levels of work of staff need to be understood.
Roth, Calder and Pilling (2011) identified eight areas of core competencies for staff working with children and adolescents with mental health difficulties in CAMHS. They also included additional competencies which will be demonstrated by some but not all of the CAMHS team, such as, skills in

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