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Fully vaccinated visitors may attend our facilities. Please refer to the visitor restrictions for more information. Find out where to get tested, where to get vaccinated, our COVID-19 response and read the latest Queensland Government information.
The Child and Youth Mental Health Service provide a comprehensive response to the varying needs of infants, children and young people with mental health problems or mental disorders and their families/carers in the community.
We focus on the mental health problems and disorders in infants, children and adolescents (aged 0 to 17 years) that:
The mental health disorders and problems that we target, in collaboration with our key health partners, include:
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services can be contacted via:
Being referred into our service can be a stressful time for individual, carers and families. However, we are here to help you navigate the mental health service system and connect to the right service in a timely way.
Intake workers at our services will accept referrals from any member of the public. If you are concerned about a young person please contact us:
If the young person is more appropriate to receive other supportive services instead of mental health support, the intake officer will recommend services that may be more suitable.
We provide specialised inpatient care to children and young people from 13 to 17 years of age. Child and youth inpatient services are only provided at the Logan Hospital.
We have community clinics located at:
We also provide an outreach clinic to Beaudesert region at the Beaudesert Hospital.
We also have a number of specialised programs which include:
Our interventions may be targeted at the level of:
We provide psychotherapeutic treatments to children, adolescents and their carers. All treatments are informed by a wide range of evidence informed psychotherapy frameworks, including, but not limited to:
Not all our clinicians are trained in all of these approaches. To the greatest extent possible, we attempt to tailor interventions balancing consumer and carer recovery goals and preference, formulation, and diagnosis with clinician training and experience, commonly integrating approaches from a number of the above-mentioned therapies.