Compass: Changing Lives
Service Information: Covers patients aged 5 to 18 years (up to age 25 if SEND or care leaver), who will benefit from a short term intervention.
They can assist with:
- Low mood: sadness, low motivation
- Mild to moderate anxiety: worries, irrational fears, and concerns
- Common challenging behaviours; angry outbursts, pushing boundaries, frustration, and distress
- Family and peer relationship difficulties
- Difficulty adjusting to change and transition
- Difficulty managing emotions
Compass Changing Lives cannot work with children and young people who:
- Are currently engaging with any other emotional-wellbeing service
- Have a diagnosis of ‘clinical’ depression, severe anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), schizophrenia, eating disorders, psychosis.
- Have self-harmed long term and currently experiencing significant suicidal thoughts/behaviours.
- Are requiring long-term therapy.
- Are in crisis or requiring out of hours support.