by Thérèse Woodcock

Today’s subject is particularly reliant on your input: either due to recent work practices having changed or because your own work is not being covered by the points raised in the following analysis. So it is important that you raise these for our consideration. In the process, I hope that we will all have a broadened view of the kinds of ways the child and family mental health services function in present day society here. Remember I maybe describing an “ideal” situation and often because of circumstances, the following points can rarely all be observed. Please consider that the following are mere pointers to a discussion and I would hope that we could dialogue throughout the day.