Parents and Carers - Mental Health and Wellbeing Requests
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Is SPA the right service?
Before you get in touch, it's important that we make sure the Single Point of Access is the right service to approach. Please read the information below.
The SPA is not the correct service if one or more of the following apply to your child/young person.
They are expressing active suicidal thoughts and risk to life is high.
This website has advice on how to assess risk in relation to suicidality - https://www.papyrus-uk.org/asking-someone-if-they-feel-suicidal/
Have had rapid weight loss and/or are significantly underweight for their age and/or presents with serious medical complications associated with an eating disorder.
This website has advice on how to assess risk in relation to eating/food -https://beat.contentfiles.net/media/documents/tips-2019.pdf
They are displaying behaviours that might indicate altered thinking, suggestive of acute psychosis.
This may involve the person seeing or interpreting things differently from those around them, eg. short episodes of delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder, disorganised speech or behaviour.
They are pregnant or have given birth within the last 12 months.
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