Focusing on relationships and taking a mixed approach to care are crucial to improving the mental health treatment of looked-after children, a report from the NSPCC has found.
Tackling the question, ‘What works in preventing and treating poor mental health in looked after children?’, the literature review, carried out by the Rees Centre at Oxford University, has called for more examination of what methods promote positive outcomes for children.
It clarifies that children and young people in care are found to have much higher rates of mental health difficulties than the general population and states there is an “overemphasis on challenging behaviour” and not what promotes positive outcomes.
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