December 2012 - IAPT

Children and Young People’s ProjectWelcome and IntroductionWelcome to the December edition of the CYP IAPT newsletter. It has once againbeen an incredibly busy few months for everyone involved!Back in July we announced that the North-East and South-West collaborativeswould be joining CYP IAPT. These two teams have been working extremely hardand effectively to get courses developed and approved, trainees recruited and ITsystems ready for Routine Outcomes Monitoring (ROM). You can find articleson the South-West and North-East’s experiences of applying to CYP IAPT andestablishing a collaborative on pages 5 and 8. Over the past few months, year 1collaboratives have reflected on the lessons they learned and shared this wisdomwith curriculum groups and their new colleagues. Updates from Reading and Londoncan be found on pages 6 and 7. Salford has been running ROM workshops, andon pages 9 and 10 we have feedback and an overview of this training.Professor Peter FonagyNational Clinical Leadfor Children and YoungPeople’s IAPTCongratulations to all the trainees, supervisors and service leads who have completedtheir training – we know how hard you have worked, not just on the academic side but also toovercome practical issues as they arose in this first experimental year. We are enormously grateful for allyour feedback. It has been invaluable in improving the courses and overall experience for year 2. We areplanning a joint workshop in London at 1 pm on Friday 8th February 2013 for all those who attended theservice leads course in years 1 and 2 – please save the date in your diaries, further information will follow.Participation is at the heart of the CYP IAPT project, and the Greater Involvement, Future Thinking (GIFT)consortium, led by Yvonne Anderson, has been appointed to lead on this until 2015. Each collaborativehas been assigned a contact in the GIFT team and bespoke solutions tailored to local needs are beingdeveloped. You can find further details about this on page 3. We would like to thank Sarah Brennan andher team at YoungMinds for the invaluable contribution they made to the first year of the programme. Onpage 4 you can find an exciting article about innovative methods of self-referral to guide our thinking inrelation to CYP IAPT.A major intellectual, clinical and organisational challenge is integrating the new modalities, InterpersonalTherapy (IPT) and Systemic Family Therapy (SFT). Work is well underway and we hope to have draftcurricula ready by the New Year. All this has been happening against a background of trying to improveon and expand the existing provision in line with our learnings from the first year.As of 1st December, all of our year 1 sites have moved to full ROM. Using ROM to enhance your therapeuticrelationships and collaborative practice with the children, young people and families we serve is centralto CYP IAPT. No one is in any doubt that this presents challenges to you and your services, but every timewe meet with young people they tell us that being able to see and understand how things are going is notjust helpful but demonstrates concretely our commitment to consider them as a full partner in a jointeffort, rather than a passive recipient of treatment.As ever, we hope the newsletter will not only inform those who are already part of CYP IAPT, or hoping tojoin, but also encourage you to get in touch with your ideas and questions. You can find contact informationon page 10. Have a wonderful break.For more information please see: http://www.iapt.nhs.uk/cyp-iapt1