Mood, emotions and relationships
In this section
This Pathway helps children and young people in Devon (excluding Plymouth) with moderate to severe mood disorders causing high distress, and affecting many areas of daily life.
This includes difficulties managing their emotions and relationships, where mental health is the primary factor.
This could include:
- depression
- anxiety
- emotion dysregulation, including self-harm
- post-traumatic disorders, such as PTSD or complex trauma
- disorders of perception, identity or appearance, such as psychoses, emerging personality disorders, body dysmorphia
- severe difficulty in parent-infant relationship related to the infants developmental difficulty
- a-typical development/distress in infant
CFHD specialists you might receive care from in this Pathway
- Psychiatrists
- Mental health professionals
- Speech and Language Therapists
- Non-medical prescribers
- Clinical Team managers
We know that sometimes it can be difficult to imagine what an initial assessment might be like, and this can make you feel a little uncertain or anxious.
Our Mood, Emotions and Relationships team (MERs) have put together a short video about what to expect at your initial assessment and what this might look like.
To find out more and watch the video, click here.
We caught up with Alice, Assistant Psychologist within the Exeter and East Mood, Emotions and Relationships (MERs) team who has written a letter to her younger self ahead of Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week.