Is your child struggling with their mental health?
Do you know if they are registered as a patient of Leadgate surgery they have access to a young person’s first contact mental health nurse?
First Contact young person’s mental health nurse can help with.
- Problems with mood/low mood/depression
- Reduced motivation
- Anxiety
- Worry/Panic
- Stress
- Tearfulness
- Feeling snappy/irritable
- Minor self-harming behaviour
- Sleep
- Eating Difficulties
- OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
- Psychosis (hearing voices/visual hallucinations)
- Emotional/behavioural difficulties where the child or young person has a need associated with a neurodevelopmental condition, such as autism/social communication needs or attentional difficulties such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD/ADD).
Issues the first contact team are unable to deal with.
- Medication
- In a mental health crisis i.e., actively suicidal are not suitable.
- Nocturnal enuresis
- Post Diagnostic interventions for Autism
- Parenting
- Pre-School without already been seen by universal services
- Counselling
- Bereavement Counselling
- Anger Management
Patients already open to Secondary Mental Health Services such as:
- CAMHS
- Early Intervention Psychosis
- Eating Disorders Team
Please call our reception team on 01207 583555 to enquire the first contact mental health team have face to face and telephone appointments available in local surgeries throughout Derwentside.
