Social prescribing, which connects people to arts and exercise activities and other sources of support, may help adolescents waiting for specialist mental health services, suggests a new study led by our Research Group. Wellbeing While Waiting, the results of which have been published in the journal European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, involved over 550 adolescents aged 11 to 18 who had been referred to children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in England, comparing those who...

Social prescribing may help young people awaiting mental health care
Rosie Dow

