Mr. Conor Boksberger:

Just to place where Jigsaw sits in the landscape, we are a non-medical service. While we have complete appreciation for our colleagues who work in that medical model, it is not the model under which we were set up. It is not how we conceptualise mental health as such or how we view it. Clinically I feel there is a place and we need to be open to any intervention that might work for a young person but what we need to steer away from is an assumption that one size fits all.

Where some young people will and do tell us that they have benefited from carefully prescribed medication, there are other young people who feel it is not for them. Choice is the word that comes to my mind, with regard to how we work collaboratively with young people. We bring our expertise, that is, everyone around the table does, in psychiatry, social work, psychology and all the allied health professionals, but young people are equal partners at that table and are able to say "I hear you, but this is way I want to go with it".