Camali Clinic - Child and Adolescent mental health service in Dubai Health Care City has launched its day programme ‘Bounce Back’ with an Open Day at its premises in Dubai Healthcare City.

Bounce back is a day programme that will provide mental health treatment alongside study support to young people between 12 and 18 years of age who are experiencing emotional, psychological, and/or behavioural problems that have a significant impact on their daily functioning and school attendance, said a statement.

It is an initiative of Camali Clinic's Developmental Training Centre that provides intensive treatment and support for children and young people between the ages of five and 18 in a variety of groups and day programme.

Dr Nadia Dabbagh, co-founder and medical advisor, said: 'We recognise that education and learning are a critical aspect of young people's development and mental health.

"We created the clinic to focus all clinicians' energies on the child and develop a team of patient-centric caregivers. We've developed a range of programme and workshops for young people and their parents at our Developmental Training Centre that complement therapies and care plans."


The programme has been divided into therapeutic sessions. It covers expressive psychotherapy, social skills, and study skills.

The team has counsellors, nurses, an occupational therapist, speech and language therapist, health promotion worker and a child and adolescent psychiatrist.

Dr Fareeha Amber Sadiq, the lead consultant psychiatrist for children and adolescents at the Camali Clinic, said: "Together they create a team characterised by consistency and sensitivity to everyone's needs and differences. We work with the young person in creating a care plan that meets their individual needs and helps them to achieve the agreed goals.''

Bounce Back encourages the young person to continue with their education, although the programme does not follow curriculum based teaching.

Katie Laing, a Maudsley trained mental health clinician from UK currently working with Camali Clinic has identified the need within Dubai for intensive therapeutic day programme to facilitate recovery and reintegration back to schools.

She developed the bounce back programme based on internationally recognised evidence based practices with aim to reduce mental health symptoms and achieve functional gain in studies and life skills.

The programme, which will run throughout the summer, will take place three times each week over four weeks.

Every young person will have an initial consultation with an experienced clinician, a session with the consultant psychiatrist, followed by individual therapy. - TradeArabia News Service