Increasing Access to Treatment for Mental Health Problems in Childhood

Presented by Cathy Creswell, PhD

Cathy is The Paul Professor of Developmental Child Psychology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre of Emerging Minds which is a new research centre focused on research that contributes to creating environments in which children and young people can thrive, and where if mental health problems do emerge they are identified early and addressed effectively.
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About the Event

Across the world the demand for effective interventions for mental health problems in children and young people far exceeds supply. In this talk I will use the example of child anxiety problems to illustrate how we have made the most of parents and of digital approaches to increase access to effective psychological treatments, with a particular focus on how we can make effective treatments available to families when they first need them.

Learning Objectives

• To recognize barriers to access to evidence-based interventions for common mental health problems in childhood
• To describe recent approaches to increasing access to psychological therapies for child anxiety disorders
• To propose mechanisms to continue to build access to effective treatments for common childhood mental health problems

About the Visiting Professor Lecture Series

The Child Mind Institute Visiting Professor Lecture Series invites leaders in the field of child and adolescent mental health to talk about the latest research and treatment protocols. All events are open to the public. Continuing medical education (CME) credits for psychiatrists and continuing education (CE) credits for psychologists and social workers are available to registered course participants. Learn more.