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Read our members' experiences and your stories of how counselling can help children and young people.

For counsellors and psychotherapists working with children and young people. The quarterly professional journal of BACP Children, Young People and Families division.

Promoting the importance of early intervention and access to timely psychological therapies for children, young people and families is a priority for BACP.

BACP CYPF is for practitioners and other professionals interested in counselling and psychotherapy for children and young people.

Online resources exploring different approaches, key factors and lessons learned from working with children, young people and families. CPD hub+.

CAMHS into the wild: Innovative programmes for young people which incorporate green and social prescribing. Plus: Resettling refugee children... Overexposed: teen sexting... Can’t not won’t... I’m coming out. BACP Children, Young People & Familes, March 2025.

Requirements for student counsellors on adult-focused BACP accredited courses undertaking training placements with children and young people.

In his blog, Callum Jones writes about his role as a Children and Young People (CYP) counsellor in school and academic settings, and how it links in with his current doctoral research. Callum also offers insight into how his neurodiversity positively impacts his work as a practitioner. BACP members blog

Watch our Senior Research Fellow Charlie Duncan talking about two collaborative research projects into counselling for children and young people. #MentalHealthResearchMatters

A competence framework for delivering effective humanistic counselling with young people aged 4 to 18 years