{"id":95,"date":"2026-07-29T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:12:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About CAMHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is CAMHS?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>CAMHS<\/strong>\u00a0stands for\u00a0<strong>Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>CAMHS help children and young people up to 18 who are finding it hard to cope with everyday life because of difficult feelings, behaviour or relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time when we are sad, angry, stressed or worried these feelings pass within a few days, but if they go on for a while and stop us enjoying and coping with life, then CAMHS can help.<\/p>\n<p>Just as we go to the doctors when we are physically ill, sometimes we need extra help with our mental health.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nhsuk-action-link\"><a class=\"nhsuk-action-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"nhsuk-action-link__text\">Learn more about CAMHS<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<h2>How we can help<\/h2>\n<p>We provide flexible support to suit your needs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Initially we will find out more about the difficulties you are having.<\/li>\n<li>We will discuss the sort of treatment and support that is likely to help and agree a plan with you.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes a few sessions will be enough to get you back on track. Sometimes you may need to meet with us for longer.<\/li>\n<li>Most importantly you will be fully involved and the plan we agree together will be reviewed regularly to make sure it is still helping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What can CAMHS do?<\/h2>\n<p>We can work with you in a range of different ways to suit your needs.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the ways we can work with you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)<\/li>\n<li>Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)<\/li>\n<li>Family Therapy<\/li>\n<li>Psychotherapy<\/li>\n<li>Solution Focussed Practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is CAMHS? CAMHS\u00a0stands for\u00a0Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. CAMHS help children and young people up to 18 who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/camhs-referrals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}