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Adult psychotherapy and child and family psychiatry

Ten years of working together for parents and infants

Halton General Hospital (NHS) Trust

Margaret Bamforth, Consultant Child and Family Psychiatrist

Halton Community Trust

Gloria Collins, Unit Coordinator

Psychotherapy Family Unit, Thorn Road Clinic, Thorn Road, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 5HQ

AIMS AND METHODS

This paper describes a 10-year alliance between an adult psychotherapy service and a child and adolescent mental health service to bring psychotherapeutically-informed help to families in difficulties early in the lives of their children.

RESULTS

It outlines staff training, the development of the unit into a significant training resource, the unit's underlying philosophy, its therapies and the key inter-relationships between teams and with health visitors to enable mutual teaming and the rapid access of families to assessment and treatment of the parent—child relationship.

CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

Funding, future plans and the preventive and economic implications of such work are mentioned.

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