Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Our Young Persons Unit

We offer specialist hospital care for young people with mental health issues. This is integrated with our outpatient and day patient services for both private and NHS patients. Each service user has their own room, in a safe, comfortable hospital, with access to many other amenities and services. How long they stay depends on the severity of their problems , and our aim is to help each patient get well and return home as soon as possible.

In addition to the core Multi Disciplinary Team care may also include family, group and individual therapy, education and activity programmes. We also involve other specialists, if there are other issues such as eating disorders or addictive behaviour.

We invite all agencies involved to attend the service user's reviews, and provide the referrer with regular treatment summaries and ongoing communication, as well as full reports and a discharge summary. Optional aftercare is also available.

Locations

Our adolescent inpatient service is located at the following Cygnet Health hospital:

• Cygnet Hospital Godden Green - (Ages 12-17)

View our Young Persons Unit's bed availablilty.

Outpatient Service

This includes psychiatry and psychology for young people with emotional, behavioural, development or learning problems in an outpatient setting. Children and young people can come to us with any of the following problems:

• Anxiety or Depression
• Attention and hyperactivity problems (ADHD)
• Abuse
• Relationship Problems
• Bereavement
• School problems and learning difficulties

The child or young person generally visits one of our outpatient clinics with a member of their family. We evaluate them, conduct psychological assessments, and then decide together on the most appropriate brief or long-term therapy. Treatment usually includes individual, family and group therapy, and parent counselling.

Locations

We provide a child & adolescent outpatient service at the following Cygnet Health hospitals:

• Cygnet Hospital Godden Green - (Under 18)
• Cygnet Hospital Harrogate - (Ages 11-17)

Related Services

Cygnet also provides a nationally regarded Eating Disorder service for adolescents aged 16-18 years old at Cygnet Hospital Ealing, in West London. For more information please visit our Cygnet Hospital Ealing page.