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Connect Snap Survey: Family Mental Health: Understanding Resources and Communications

Connect is a member of the Awareness Raising and Promotion Implementation Group, a sub-group of the Children and Family Mental Health Joint Strategic Board. As part of this work we’ve been requested to ask parents and carers about their experiences of supporting their child’s mental health, to help Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) improve their communication with families.

There will be some general questions around mental health support, and some specific questions about CAMHS.

As this can be a sensitive topic, please feel free to skip any questions you do not wish to answer. Your responses will be stored securely, and the data will be collated and anonymised in a report which will be shared with the Implementation Group as well as published on our website. If you have any questions about this please feel free to email lydia@connect.scot.

If you are affected by any of the topics in this survey, or wish to access support, the following resources may be helpful to you:
- Breathing Space

This survey will close on Wednesday 19th November and will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
1.How old are your child(ren)?
Please select all that apply.(Required.)
2.Which local authority area do you live in?(Required.)
Family Mental Health
3.Has your child been affected by mental health issues?
4.If you answered yes to the previous question, were you able to access help and support for your child’s mental health?
5.If you were not able to access support, please explain what happened.
6.Has your child's mental health issues impacted your own mental health?
7.Do you have any experience with CAHMS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services), either for yourself in the past or for a child in your care?
8.If yes, was this for yourself or your child?
9.Do you have any experience with adult mental health services?
Mental Health Support
10.How confident do you feel about supporting your child’s mental health?
11.How supported do you feel with your whole family’s mental health?
12.What helps you feel supported with your family mental health?
You can select more than one option.
13.Is there anything else that you feel would be useful for supporting your family’s mental health in the future?
14.Has your child’s school given you information about activities/lessons delivered to children which included mental health?
15.If you answered yes, can you please tell us more about the activities or lessons?
16.How was this information shared with you?
17.Would you find it helpful for supporting your child’s mental health if the school involved parents in health and wellbeing programmes relating to mental health?
CAMHS Communication
18.If you have experience of CAMHS, do you feel the language used in communication from CAMHS is easy to understand?
19.If you said the language used was not easy to understand, please tell us more about this.
20.For you, what would be included in an ideal letter from CAMHS?
21.Is there anything should CAMHS avoid doing in letters? Please explain.
22.Is there anything else you’d like to add about communication from CAMHS?
Consent
This section will ask about consent and during children and young people’s mental health treatment.
23.What is your understanding around informed consent and children’s rights when it comes to communication about your child’s mental health?
24.What do you consider good, informed consent to look like?
25.What information/communication would help you to understand your children’s rights when it comes to their mental health, and your rights and responsibilities as a parent?
26.How would you like this information to be communicated to you?
You can select more than one option.
Final Comments
27.Is there anything else you’d like to say about any of the topics covered in this survey?