AUTISM
What are CAMHS doing well?
What could CAMHS do better?
Drivers behind initiative
 The Scottish Autism Strategy 2011
 Dumfries and Galloway Autism Strategy 2014 – 2017
 GIRFEC 2008
 Quality Strategy Document 2010
 Changes to the way services supporting families
worked toward diagnosis
 Meet the parents
 Aspire to Lead 2015
Professor Dewar
 Professor of Practice Improvement – University of the West of Scotland
Fiona Cook
Psychotherapist, Practice Development leader, Nurse Teacher
Appreciative Inquiry Model
Emotional Touch Points
 A way of gathering information
 Allows Parents and Carers to feel listened to and tell
their story
 The Good the Bad and the Ugly
 Lets services know what is going well and what we
need to improve
 Lets parents and carers make suggestions
Positive inquiry Tool
 A fancy term for a simple tool
 I like simple
 Two questions
 What are CAMHS doing well?
 What could CAMHS do better?
What did I do?
 5 Parents/Carers
 5 Members of the CAMHS team – Psychiatrist, MHW
and Support Mental Health Worker
 5 Young people
Preliminary Results Parents/Carers
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Themes on training needs
Post diagnosis intervention
Collaborative Working
Information sharing
Acknowledgement of grief feelings
Interventions for teens – around preparing to move on
to secondary school, relationships, university college
 Suggestions – sign post earlier, support for parents
grief, give parents more info to help support young
person
Preliminary Results Staff
 We have knowledge and skills in some localities
 Some good links with partner agencies
 Some good Psycho social education going on
 Pathways and role not clear enough
 Diagnosis better
 Suggestions – replicate good work in each locality
across whole region, post diagnostic service with clear
role, clear pathways and role
What next
 AUTISM Mental Health Worker
 February 2016 presentation to CAMHS Senior
Management Group
 Review of a better Autism service
After
 Keep using Emotional Touch Points
 Keep using Positive Inquiry tool
 Keep on discovering, dreaming, designing,
 Doing (Experimenting, Modifying, Empowering)
Unexpected Developments
 Bid for Autism Mental Health Worker
 Autism Network
 Autism conference with Parents and Carers and Adults
 Living with Autism Sept 2015
 Todays conference
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Many Thanks
Fiona Findlay
PMHW
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[email protected]
References
 The Scottish Auti1sm Strategy 2011
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Dumfries and Galloway Autism Strategy 2014 – 2017
GIRFEC
Quality Strategy Document
Dewar, B. Cook, F (2014) Developing compassion through a
relationship centred appreciative and leadership
programme. Nurse Education Today. Vol 34
Dewar, B. Et al (2010) Use of emotional touch points as a
method of tapping into the experience of receiving
compassionate care in a hospital setting. Journal of
Research in Nursing. Vol 15 (29)