Mersey Care’s Children’s Eating Disorder Service (CED) has launched TRIANGLE – a new digital intervention that is aimed at young people with anorexia nervosa and their parents and carers.
Developed in partnership with Professor Janet Treasure at Kings College London and Informatics Merseyside, TRIANGLE has been co-created using clinical expertise and input from children and young people, and their parents and carers. It will be used to help CED’s service users, their parents and carers in Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, and Warrington.
It has also been supported by the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC), which is a research partnership between Mersey Care and the University of Liverpool.
Mersey Care’s Deputy Divisional Director for Children Young People and Families, Karina Woodyer-Smith, said: “The TRIANGLE platform offers tailored workbooks, videos, and weekly online forums to help families learn, connect, and support each other through recovery.
“We’ve already received fantastic feedback, with young people feeling more comfortable opening up digitally, and carers finding comfort in knowing they’re not alone.
“It’s a real step forward in how we support our community, and I’m incredibly proud of the team for making it happen. We feel privileged to be a part of this development and to witness the positive impacts it has on our young people.”
Feedback has already shown that parents and carers have found it helpful to have a space where they can share their experiences. Additionally, TRIANGLE has made it so these people do not feel alone – making them feel more supported, less isolated and more positive – and this has largely aided their recovery.
Dr Ashish Kumar, Clinical Director of Mersey Care’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health Service and co-lead of M-RIC’s research on digital mental health for children and young people, said: “It’s exciting we have a new modern model of digital intervention which is going to help children and young people with anorexia nervosa and their carers.
“We’re so excited to see what we can do with this new innovative platform as we transform care for young people with eating disorders in the North West and beyond.”
CBE FRCPsych, Professor of Psychiatry at King’s College London, Professor Janet Treasure, added: “Congratulations to all the Mersey Care team on developing and implementing a new structure to ensure access to shared knowledge about best practice in eating disorder care.”
If you or a family member is a Mersey Care CEDS service user and you would like to know more about the TRIANGLE project, speak to your care team.
More information about the service’s work can be found here.
Information about research on digital mental health for children and young people can be found on the M-RIC’s website, here.
