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Triangle of Care: A Step by Step Guide to Completing the Self-Assessment for CAMHS

Resource title: Triangle of Care: A Step by Step Guide to Completing the Self-Assessment for CAMHS
Published: 2019    Author: Karen Martin, Carers Trust Scotland

A guide for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in Scotland implementing Triangle of Care with examples and suggested time line for planning.

Key points

  • A step-by-step guide.
  • It’s about being honest about starting points and improvements/changes which need to take place.
  • This has to be a team effort.
  • The guide explains how Triangle of Care can help with consistency when engaging with carers.

About the resource

The original Triangle of Care guide was launched in July 2010 as a joint piece of work between The Princess Royal Trust for Carers (now Carers Trust) and the National Mental Health Development Unit.

It emphasises the need for better local strategic involvement of carers and families in the care planning and treatment of people with mental ill-health.