Your Story – Experiences of children and young people who have
used child and adolescent mental health services
Why we designed the Your Story consultation tool
The Your Story consultation tool is a
questionnaire that was designed as part of the development process
of our standards for integrated care pathways for child and
adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). It was designed with
input from our user and parent/carer subgroup to enable us to
engage with children and young people throughout Scotland. Your
Story was not designed as a research tool but as a framework for
talking to children and young people about their involvement with
CAMHS. It helped us to:
- find out what it’s like to use CAMHS
- what helps
- what could be better,
and
- capture children and young
people’s views of the services they receive.
Since our initial consultation between January
and April 2011, the questionnaire has been simplified so that it is
easier to use and reflects the feedback we received.
The Your Story report provides an analysis of
the collated responses to our consultation. We would like to thank
Barnardo’s Scotland and all of the children, young people and
workers who took part in the consultation process.
The Your Story consultation tool comes with
staff guidance notes. These provide extra information for
professionals using Your Story with children and young people. This
revised tool is also available on the
ICP toolkit.
For further information, please contact:
Catriona Macmillan, Project
Officer, on 0131 623 4391
Published Date: 14 December 2011
