child and adolescent mental health services
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CAMHS: “Your child is Anxious because they’re Autistic”
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have repeatedly failed Autistic children, particularly through diagnostic overshadowing. This practice involves attributing symptoms to…
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It’s World Autism Day: CAMHS are still failing our children
World Autism Day is an opportunity for CAMHS to support the autistic community, but their efforts seem performative. Their lack of post-diagnostic…
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CAMHS Fails Autistic Children, and the NHS ignores it
Every day, it seems, brings new heartbreaking stories of autistic children failed by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). It’s no…
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CAMHS: Burnout, School Avoidance, and gaslighting
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have been a focus of mine for quite some time now. I have talked about…
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CAMHS in the words of it’s own staff
I have talked extensively of the failures of CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) to support Autistic young people. There have…