What do CAMHS do?

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services cover a whole range of services and support available to you as a young person if you are having a difficult time with how you are feeling, how you are coping emotionally or if you are behaving in a way that’s not usual for you.

NHS Tayside Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, often referred to by young people as CAMHS, is the more specialist part of this range of services. We’re a specialist service because we support children and young people with more severe or concerning emotional, behavioural or functional difficulties including anxiety, depression, eating disorder, ADHD and ASD.

The young people we support are six years olds up to 18 year olds, who are still on a school roll.