THE UK's mental health crisis is pushing at-risk youngsters to the brink, with research revealing that 4 in 10 turned down for specialist support have self-harmed or had suicidal thoughts. Children ...

One in five young people in the UK now access specialist mental health care by age 18 – a fourfold increase in under two decades, new research suggests ...

Three children in every classroom have a diagnosable mental health issue, and the number of referrals into specialist mental health services is increasing. Without investment in both early ...

A Bloxwich opticians has shared some Christmas cheer with a donation to the Walsall CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health ...

Being a parent of a primary school aged child is a stressful business. The responsibility, the hours, the negative feedback (often delivered at top volume in a supermarket aisle): all combine to leave ...

My dad helped me seek help as a teenager (Picture: Dave Anderson for Metro.co.uk) At aged 15, I saw my first psychiatrist, under CAMHS in the NHS. I hadn’t been sleeping, my heart and thoughts raced ...

Harvard’s Counseling and Mental Health Services has witnessed an influx of students seeking mental health resources since they returned to campus this fall, administrators said in an Oct. 28 interview ...

Harvard’s Counseling and Mental Health Services announced last Friday the launch of a new 24/7 mental health hotline, CAMHS Cares, for students in need of immediate help. In an interview with the ...

Figures show 487 young patients were on the waiting list for too long by March this year Health authorities have blamed a lack of funds for a rise of more than 600% in children and young people ...

It was at his best friend’s birthday party that the problem first arose. Full of cake and chocolate, Alex, then seven, had been running up and down the stairs when suddenly he threw up. An alpha male ...

It was only a week ago that my colleague Jon Goldin made a powerful case for ring-fencing national funding for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). Today’s Budget would suggest that ...

Kirsty was being treated by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) up until the age of 18. She's one of 25,000 young people in England that make the move to adult mental health services ...