RESHAPE Study: Key Takeaways on Service Access

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.26241
In this ‘RESHAPE Study’ series episode, Professor Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, Franki Mathews, and Dr. Kate Allen provide insight into the findings from the RESHAPE study with regards to how young people sought support for their mental health and accessed services during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
The ‘RESHAPE Study’ series is a new mini-in conversation series that will explore the RESHAPE study and the impact of its findings for parents, teachers, policymakers, and mental health professionals.
Discussion points include:

• Patterns of service contact during COVID and how these findings can inform service provision.
• Insight into the qualitive interviews with parents and young people about their experiences with help-seeking and service access during COVID.
• The experiences of commissioners of child mental health services with regards to commissioning services and the challenges they faced.
• Main implications from the study for meeting children and young people’s needs.

RESHAPE or ‘REflecting on the impactS of covid-19 on cHildren And young People in England: exploring experiences of lockdown, service access and education’ is a large study looking at how life changed for children, young people, and parents during the lockdown and how this may have affected them. This is a follow-on study from the National Study of Health and Wellbeing: Children and Young people and is a joint effort between the University of Exeter, the University of Cambridge, King’s College London and the NHS.