The Choice and Partnership Approach (CAPA), is a model of engagement and clinical assessment, principally used in child and adolescent psychiatric services.
[clarification needed] The CAPA model was developed in the early 2000s in two English NHS trust providers.
It is a collaborative model where the clinicians providing the assessment act as facilitators for the user and their family.
[4] Once a referral is accepted by the service, the user is contacted to arrange a convenient time for an appointment.
The model is based on transparent collaboration, finding user strengths and developing a shared formulation.