What Happens Next?

Initially a professional such as a teacher, family doctor or social worker, with whom you have discussed your family’s or child’s difficulties with, may feel the need to contact a primary mental health worker. Should the primary mental health worker decide the best way forward is to ask Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services to become involved, a referral letter will then be sent here to Lime Trees. The team will then allocate a member of staff or specialist team who best meets the needs of your child or family (have a look at Who Works Here).

Or alternatively Inpatient care (Note: This is only offered to a minority of children or young people. The majority of people are seen as outpatients).

Initial Meeting

On receipt of a referral and allocation of staff, someone will contact you either by letter or phone asking you to attend an appointment at Limetrees, Selby War Memorial or alternatively you may be offered an appointment at home. For younger children this will be with parents or sometimes we ask to see parents alone first. For older people (i.e. 16-18years) we invite the individual and they may come alone or with family (the choice is yours). The first session will last one – one and a half hours, depending on what worker / team you are seeing. We will mainly ask questions around what has led you to services and current concerns. At this meeting you may be asked details on background family, medical and social history. This gives us an overall picture of things. This information is stored in a confidential file (refer to Limetrees ‘storing of personal information’). A Lime Tree’s member of staff will explain this fully at your first appointment.

From this meeting we may need to gather further assessment details before we plan with you any recommendations/treatments. We may also ask your permission to visit yours child’s school or to liaise with relevant services/agencies who also know your child.

What treatments do we offer?

• Different forms of therapy, including individual, group and family therapy.
  
• Medication (though this is not common)
  
• Parent support groups
  
• Networking and consultation with different agencies to help you/your child remain involved with day to day activities (ie, school, colleges, employers, youth services, voluntary agencies)
  
• Castlegate (16-18 year olds)
  
• The CAMHS team may suggest hospital admission BUT THIS IS RARE. In such circumstances we will explain our reasons why and fully support you and your family through this process.

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