Participants perceived annual health reviews to be largely inconsequential.Any primary care presentation by a care-experienced young person should trigger additional professional curiosity. To build rapport and trust, professionals should not underestimate the power of active listening, being reliable and ...
However, undertaking qualitative research with CYP is challenging [120, 121] and it is entirely possible that the lack of data on this issue reflects difficulties experienced by researchers in interviewing research participants about the more distressing aspects of living with a LT/LSC. Future ...
experienced young people, and a specific lack of knowledge regarding online support; 2) Choice and tailoring: young people need choice and flexibility in identifying provision that best suits their needs, and this includes the decision to receive online, blended or in-person services; 3) Training...
"No young person leaving care should have to live in unsafe accommodation or be left homeless - but that is the reality for many right now, compounding the trauma they've experienced in the past," she added. "But this can be fixed. The government must end the care cliff, p...
Young people enter the care of their local authority in the UK when their parents are unable to provide them with the care they need. A little over half will have experienced abuse (physical or sexual) or neglect (Department for Education [DfE], 2012a). Many will subsequently be supported...
Hello, I’m Fran Hornsby and I am the dedicated contact for our care-experienced and estranged students at the University of York. Early on in my working life, a young person in the care of their local authority told me: “I want someone to care who isn’t being paid to.” The poi...
An argument is presented outlining the need for an expert knowledge of grief and loss and attachment theories on the part of social workers working with young people, along with excellent communication and engagement skills to facilitate an understanding of life as experienced by a young person in...
That’s what we are here for. We are a specialist psychological healthcare service, led by highly qualified and experienced clinical psychologists. We offer outstanding psychological support and therapies for Children, Adolescents and Young People, and their families, living with emotional, behavioural...
This distinguished homosexuality from disorders such as schizophrenia in which an afflicted person may not suffer distress but would be functionally impaired. In 1974, DSM-II was revised such that homosexuality, on its own, was no longer a mental disorder; however, an individual who experienced ...
She experienced the shift from paediatric to adult services as an important catalyst. Josephine acknowledged that, although she needs someone to “look after me medically” in fact, “if I … had a choice I probably wouldn't share any … information” and when clinicians tried to engage her ...