Welcome to episode 86 [originally broadcast on Thursday 31 March 2022] of #mhTV. This week Nicky Lambert and David Munday spoke with guests Grace Cook and Dr Ann Cox to talk about the value of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services Nursing.
GC - Grace is a qualified Mental Health Nurse. During her career to date she has worked in a variety of settings including a specialist therapeutic unit, acute mental health care and most recently a community mental health team. Up until 2019 Grace also worked with the University of Nottingham as a Research Associate. This opportunity led to Grace being involved in developing and evaluating Resilience-based Clinical Supervision. In 2019/2020 Grace worked with Health Education England as a RePAIR I.P. Fellow. When the COVID-19 pandemic began Grace ensured that she continued to advocate for staff support, including working with FoNS to develop resources as part of her RePAIR Fellow Role.
Most recently, Grace has joined the Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS) as the Resilience Based Clinical Supervision Programme.
AC - Dr Ann Cox is a proud mental health nurse and a CAMHS nurse consultant. Ann is currently a co-chair for the National Mental Health Nurse Consultants Forum and chair of the CAMHS Nurse consultant forum.
Ann has been working in CAMHS for the past 20 years, and has collected a number of additional skills along the way including being an independent prescriber, a cognitive behavioural therapist and qualifications in supervision. Ann has developed expertise in working with you children who are or present at a younger developmental stage. Ann has a keen interest in research and was recently awarded her Doctoral award in Nursing practice, in which Ann is researched “how to involve children aged 8-12 years in decision making and consent processes in outpatient CAMHS”. Ann is a Florence Nightingale Scholar and an RCN Foundation bursary awardee. Ann is a peer reviewer for a number of journals and publishers and is also associate editor for the Journal of Child Health Care. Ann is CAMHS SIG lead for the Positive Practice in Mental Health and co-chair of the Children and families SIG for the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP). Ann has a number of publications regarding CAMHS clinical practice and recently published a book titled “Helping Your Child with Worry and Anxiety”.
Ann is a co-founding member of @CAMHSNetwork. Ann is passionate about children’s mental health nursing development and understanding the application of theory to practice.Manager/Lead Facilitator.
Some Twitter links to follow are:
NL - https://twitter.com/niadla
DM - https://twitter.com/davidamunday
GC - http://twitter.com/gracemcook28
AC - https://twitter.com/AnnieCoxy
Credits:
Presenter: Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guests: Grace Cook and Dr Ann Cox
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday
