Children and young people’s mental health in general hospital settings

Day 1 – MAUDSLEY MASTERCLASS

• Rapport building and therapeutic engagement
• History taking skills
• Identifying psychiatric symptoms
• Mental health comorbidities with chronic health conditions
• Neurodevelopmental disorders
• Behavioural problems
• Health behaviours and medication refusal
• Medically unexplained symptoms
• First-episode psychosis
• Risk assessment and management

Day 2 – MAUDSLEY SIMULATION

• Practicing engagement techniques
• Managing acute distress and challenging behaviours
• Assessing risk and safety planning
• Safeguarding and legal aspects
• Signposting and accessing mental health care

• Identify signs of mental health needs in children and young people presenting in health settings
• Consider the overlap between physical and mental health and wider determinants of health and wellbeing in their patients
• Develop therapeutic rapport with children and young people
• Formulate basic management plans, including signposting and referrals as appropriate
• Prevent and manage behavioural disturbance in healthcare setting for CYP presenting with a range of mental health difficulties