Leeds CAMHS accept referrals for children and young people (up until their 18^th birthday) who have a mental health problem which fulfils one or more of the following criteria:

• Has been persistent for six months or more (less for under 5’s)
• When targeted emotional health services (based within other agencies) have not resolved the problem and a specialist CAMHS input is required
• Where mental health issues have a major impact on activities of daily life over an extended period
• Where the problem is more serious than a “normal reaction” to an “everyday adverse life event”
• Where there is a high risk/ severity (e.g. serious self-harm/attempted suicide, low weight for height, psychosis)

We additionally treat:

• An eating disorder (as set out in the CEDS National Guidance)
• A psychotic illness (in consultation with Aspire)
• ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
• Moderate/severe emotional problems such as depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive patterns of behaviour an emerging borderline personality disorder

 We also carry out assessments of children and young people who:

• May have ASC (Autistic Spectrum Conditions)
• Are at risk of suicide or are repeatedly self-harming who have been admitted to, or attend, hospital following self-harm who present in mental health crisis