Easy access to information about effective ways of responding to need.

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about these pages

These are interactive web pages (almost 1,000) providing information about evidence-based interventions for children and young people with emotional and behavioural and other mental health problems. 

They suggest evidence-based strategies that can be used to tackle specific problems and evidence-based projects that might help 'troubled' children, young people and their families.

They are structured according to the categories used in the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Child and Adolescents (HoNOSCA), and cover the following problem areas:

• Disruptive, antisocial or aggressive behaviour

• Emotional and related symptoms

• Family life and relationship problems

• Nonorganic somatic symptoms

• Overactivity, attention, or concentration problems

• Peer relationship problems

• Physical illness or disability problems

• Poor school attendance

• Scholastic or language skills problems

• Self-care and independence problems

• Self-harm/non-accidental self-injury

• Substance misuse

In general you can select one or more of the following:

• Overview
• An ecological approach – seeing the problem in its context
• Associated problems – other issues that may equally or more need to be the focus of concern
• Immediate steps – what you might want to do straightaway
• The tool box – evidence-based activities that you could use
• Validated programmes – which you might want to access or set up
• Contact information – organisations which might be able to help parents or professionals.

The pages are updated annually by the Centre for Evidence Based Interventions at the University of Oxford, through a peer-review and practitioner-check process. 

where the pages have come from

This started life as a written publication, What Works for Troubled Children? jointly commissioned by Wiltshire Social Services (as it was then known) and Barnardo’s. In its current form, it was commissioned by Wiltshire and developed with social workers from Wiltshire, under the guidance of Peter Fanshawe, and working with Ann Buchanan and her team of social work researchers at the Centre for Research for Parenting and Children at University of Oxford.

In 2007 a partnership was formed between these two organisations and research in practice in order to bring this unique information and learning source to a wider group of children’s services agencies and professional disciplines.

link directly to your local services and resources

These pages can be made even more useful to Partner agencies by including links to the relevant local services and resources available to them. If your agency wants to set up this link please contact us here. The accuracy of the content of these links is the responsibility of the agency supplying them.

please note

This material is for the use of child care professionals to help inform decisions. research in practice can take no responsibility for any decisions made.

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