Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is a name for NHS-provided services for children in the mental health arena in the UK.

The service includes:

• psychiatry
• clinical psychology
• psychiatric nursing
• social worker interface
• psychotherapy
• language development

for the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents, generally until school-leaving age. However many services cease at the age of sixteen, whereas the continuing service would be provided by Adult Mental Health at the age of eighteen

See also

• Child psychopathology for US terminology

Mental health | Psychology | Psychiatry | Childhood psychiatric disorders