MindWorks: A Practical Guide for Changing Thoughts Beliefs, and Emotional Reactions

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We can also offer signposting and resources to the professional network around the child or young person to enable them to identify any concerns and support any developing mental health needs. We can work with parents and schools to enable them to nurture children and young people’s emotional health, wellbeing and build emotional resilience. We offer support and advice to key people (teacher and or parent/ carer) around the child or young person to enable them to identify any concerns, understand what has happened for that child or young person and support any developing mental health needs. A move away from ‘referrals’ towards ‘requests for support’; this reflects the more holistic and less diagnosis-led approach Although not always the case, some children may also have signs of other problems or conditions alongside ADHD, such as:

Please call us on: 01372 216 555 if you are not able to attend an assessment appointment that has been offered to you. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, if an assessment appointment is not attended, and you have not cancelled or rescheduled within 24 hours of the appointment, your child will be discharged from the ND Service. Tourette's syndrome–a condition of the nervous system, characterised by a combination of involuntary noises and movements (tics)

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GPs and other professionals can refer to the specialist children’s services via online portal, telephone and post. We know that life experiences can look like neurodivergent needs including sleep, diet, life trauma, time away from peers during covid etc. We therefore ask that attempts are made to support these areas of need in the first instance in liaison with your school nurse, SENCO or primary mental health worker linked with the school. For an extensive list of local and national support through the festive holidays please visit Surrey Youth Voice.

Our community teams assess and treat children and young people who are struggling with difficulties associated with neurodevelopment conditions where these are having a significant impact on the child’s development and quality of life, and causing them and/or their carers distress. These difficulties may be causing the child or young person's functioning to deteriorate and problems to escalate. Call the Children and Family Health Surrey One Stop on 0300 222 5755.Our phone lines are open Monday to Friday from 9am to 11am. How do I refer to other children’s community health services, such as safeguarding, continuing care, audiology or children’s community nursing? One Stop triages referrals from health, education and social care professionals for the services listed below: Sleep problems –finding it difficult to get to sleep at night, and having irregular sleeping patternsThere's no simple test to determine whether you or your child has ADHD, but your specialist can make an accurate diagnosis after a detailed assessment. The assessment may include:

All referrals are made through the Children and Family Health Surrey One Stop online portal(pleaseuse Google Chrome to access).This is the same portal as Mindworks Surrey.been showing symptoms in at least two different settings–for example, at home and at school, to rule out the possibility that the behaviour is just a reaction to certain teachers or to parental control I spoke to a lady called Sarah who was fantastic. She related to what I was saying about my son and signposted me to get lots of support. She could not have been more patient and helpful. One Stop is a clinically-led, centralised referral and triage service for targeted and specialist children’s services in Surrey. One Stop works to ensure children and young people are receiving the right care, in the right place at the right time. proactive prevention and promotion to enable the whole community to support mental health and wellbeing Instead of receiving questionnaires to fill in as the first step in the process, you will be asked to liaise with School (or other adult/group leader in the young person’s life) to work together on identifying the young person’s needs and how this presents itself within different areas of their lives. This allows strategies to be tried and support to be delivered in the classroom environment and at home.

Mindworks Surrey is raising awareness about emotional wellbeing support available to children, young people and their parents in Surrey this Children’s Mental Health Week (February 7 to February 13). Young people meet with peers of a similar age and gender to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences. The group helps people think about how the abuse has affected them and their families, how they are feeling now, how to deal with difficulties like nightmares, feeling anger or blame and think about how to cope and move forward. It’s not all talking though - there are practical things like drawing or making things. Groups for female carers We are working hard to improve the referral system, but for now please continue to make requests for support (referrals) through the portal or via the Access and Advice service (formerly CAMHS SPA) on 0300 222 5755For example, somepeople withthe conditionmay have problems with inattentiveness, but not with hyperactivity or impulsiveness.