Dr. Sonia Morris:

The PSI has a working group of psychologists who are looking at discipline-specific guidelines. Often, such guidelines conflict with the guidelines being used by CAMHS teams. For example, there are PSI guidelines for good autism assessments, but these conflict directly with what assessment teams are being asked to do. What teams are being asked to do falls far short of what psychologists as a discipline have decided is a good assessment and what international best practice dictates is a good assessment. There needs to be a marrying up of what disciplines say is a good assessment and what the public system allows those disciplines to work on within the system.