Reference library
Sources and further reading
A starting point for the original guidance and service descriptions behind the articles.
How to use this library
Each substantive article includes references beside the relevant discussion and a source list. This library groups selected starting points. It does not replace the page-specific references or claim that every linked service has been independently inspected.
Public-health guidance, professional registers and provider descriptions serve different purposes. Provider websites support statements about the provider’s published offering; they are not independent evidence of comparative quality. See the editorial policy and comparison methodology.
Mental health and treatment
- NIMH: Children and mental health
- NIMH: Psychotherapies
- NHS: Children’s and young people’s mental health services
- NHS: OCD treatment
- NICE NG225: Self-harm assessment, management and preventing recurrence
- NICE NG43: Transition between children’s and adult services
- NHS: Autism and adult life
- AACAP: Residential treatment programmes
Substance use and finding support
Families, education and privacy
Provider checks and cross-border care
Official provider descriptions
- THE BALANCE: Published adult programme and locations
- THE BALANCE: Relationship between group programmes
- COGNIFUL: Official programme information
- Newport Academy: Residential programmes
- Mass General Brigham: McLean SouthEast ART
- Priory: Named adolescent service in London
Check the exact service, current age criteria, location, capability and availability directly. A link here is not a clinical admission decision or an independently audited endorsement.
Urgent-help resources
- 988 Lifeline: Youth support in the United States
- NHS: Urgent mental health help
- Spanish Ministry of Health: 024
For immediate danger or a medical emergency, use local emergency services. The urgent-help page separates these routes from ordinary treatment enquiries.