Debate: COVID crisis, natural capital and clinical care – ‘building back better’ for a new values‐based CAMHS

• DOI: 10.1111/camh.12410
• Publication Date: 2020-07-31T04:17:50Z
• Authors: Jacinta Tan; Bill Fulford
• Keywords: Mental Health Services; Adolescent; SARS-CoV-2; Child Health Services; Pneumonia, Viral; COVID-19; 3. Good health; Psychiatry and Mental health; Betacoronavirus; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Adolescent Health Services; Humans; Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health; Child; Coronavirus Infections; Pandemics

The COVID‐19 pandemic has meant upheaval for child and adolescent mental health services and for children, young people and their families. We look at this disruption through the lens of values‐based practice. We also briefly examine the concept of natural capital and the opportunity for ‘Building Back Better’ post‐COVID. We suggest that as well as losses, there are also opportunities to rethink and reshape our practices to make them more value‐based.