Getting advice
This page is for children, young people, and families who need help with their feelings or mental health.
Look below to see some of the things you or someone you care about might be going through. You’ll find advice and ideas to help.
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Advice for children under Five years
The Under-Fives’ Clinic is part of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Worcestershire
The service is provided for babies and children of up to and including 4 years old with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties that have not responded to the ordinary strategies used by the parent or to specific advice and suggestions from other professionals.
We do not provide a diagnosis but aim to work alongside parents in thinking about their child, working together to understand the emotional meaning behind the puzzling or difficult behaviour. This could include difficulties around sleeping or eating, or problems in relationships with parents or siblings. They may have experienced trauma around the time of gestation or birth and difficulties in bonding with their parent/carer, or they could have been very ill as a baby or toddler. For some children their troubles are linked to parental conflict or separation.
We also work with children who are fostered or adopted, for whom early life will have had particular stresses and strains.
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Helpful resources:
- Click here to view our Health Visiting Service
- Click here to view Family Front Door referral point
- Click here to view the Freedom Programme
- Click here to view the Solihull Approach Parenting Course