TY - JOUR T1 - The state of play in child and adolescent mental healthcare services (England): not in front of the children? JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 65 LP - 65 DO - 10.1136/eb-2015-102128 VL - 18 IS - 3 AU - Clare Gaskin AU - Sally Hardy Y1 - 2015/07/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/18/3/65.abstract N2 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is specifically about working with children and young people (CYP) from 0 to 18 years old. It is over 10 years since it was reported that 1 in 10 children living in England have a diagnosed need for support and treatment for their mental health issues.1 Since then the statistics remain staggeringly high in terms of CYP's mental suffering living in a world where poverty, housing, abuse and stigma still haunts their upbringing.CAMHS did not exist before the 1940s, except for a small number of psychoanalytically trained clinicians who were interested in understanding and treating children to enable them to become healthy adults (eg, Donald Winnicotti). Children during the pre-war era were treated in ‘Child Guidance Clinics’, predominantly run by local education authorities. Following the launch of the National Health … ER -