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Contact Information:
Monash Medical Centre 246 Clayton Road Clayton, Vic. 3168
Tel: +613 9594 1300 Fax: +613 9594 6333
E-mail: camhs@southernhealth.org.au |
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| Clinical Director: Dr Paul Lee | Director CAMHS & Primary Partnerships: Ms. Lisa Lynch |
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Further information and referral information links below:
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The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) includes teams for the entire southern region which covers the geographical boundaries from Port Melbourne to Portsea to Pakenham. |
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What is the Child and Adolescent
Mental Health Service?
The service provides an outpatient service
for children and adolescents aged 0 - 18 years of age, and families who are
experiencing emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. Inpatient
service provides residential milieu therapy and treatment to adolescents
aged 12 -18 years.
Vision
Into the 21st century, Southern Health seeks
to strengthen mental health service provision to its child and adolescent
population through staff training and development, uptake of leading edge
research, stakeholder involvement and continuing service improvement.
Mission
Statement
Within the public mental health system, our mission is to:
- Provide service excellence in all areas of child & adolescent mental health;
- Actively facilitate access and responsiveness to all levels of
mental health service
intervention including;
- Ensuring priority of service delivery to the most serious mentally ill children and adolescents and those most at risk of developing severe mental illness, particularly where there is a danger of self harm associated with mental illness, and / or risk of suicide;
- The provision of psychiatric expertise to other severely disturbed children and adolescents in partnership with other agencies responsible for their care;
- Advocate for improved child and adolescent mental health;
- Promote mental health and the prevention of mental illness in children and young people and attract and sustain resources for research into child and adolescent mental health and provide the findings of such research to provide better care and treatment.
Assessment Services
Specialised assessment services are available
in the following areas, psychological assessments, family psycho-social,
speech and language, learning and developmental assessments, autism and
spectrum related disorders.
These assessments involve seeing the child and parents or the whole family for one or more sessions.
Academic Centre for
Developmental Psychiatry.
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Service is located within the grounds of Monash Medical Centre in Clayton,
and is co-located with the Monash University Centre for Developmental
Psychiatry, providing a range of academic research, teaching and special
clinical initiatives in the fields of autism, developmental disabilities,
school refusal, sexual abuse and families with young babies.
Southern Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services has affiliations with Adult Mental Health Services, Alfred CAMHS, community based agencies, GPs and paediatricians to provide shared care of clients within the service.
The CAMHS Service has a wide range of training and educational activities at the team, service and network levels. As well as a formalised clinical supervision process, CAMHS staff are encouraged to participate in all clinical, training and research activities.
Clinical Components of the CAMHS
Service.
The service has several clinical components
such as community outpatient assessment and treatment teams located in
Dandenong, Casey and Frankston; an Intensive Day Program Service;
Mobile Youth Outreach Service; Consultation and Liaison Service; 15 bed
inpatient assessment and treatment service and a Mental Health Promotions
Officer.
Southern Health Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service has a dedicated Mental Health Worker to work with high risk adolescents who are Department of Human Services clients.
Further information and referral information links below:
To contact us email to:
camhs@southernhealth.org.au