The Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) Programme in England

The Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme was initiated in 2011 by the Department of Health. It aimed to improve the access of children, young people and their families to evidence-based psychological therapies (EBPTs) and to seek their participation in all aspects of care, service delivery and design. CYP IAPT addresses the broad range of mental health difficulties commonly presenting to community-based child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). The programme took advantage of pre-existing CAMHS partnerships between public commissioners of mental health services and the NHS, local authorities and the charity and voluntary sector service providers. In CYP IAPT, mandatory routine outcome monitoring (ROM) measures of user participation typically take the form of standardized questionnaires used before each treatment session to gauge the severity of the patient's problems, their sense of progress towards their goals, and the extent to which their expectations of treatment were met