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Online resources exploring the reasons why young people self-harm and ways to support them. CPD hub+.

'[CYPF Executive Committee] are a varied bunch, but we still have room to grow. We are looking for two new members...'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, March 2024.

Samia Quddus describes the personal and professional experiences that led to the creation of her children’s picture book. BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2020

Sarah Watson urges CYP counsellors and psychotherapists to practise self-care, whatever that might look like for each of us. BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2020

Divisional news, including updates from BACP’s CYPF Lead Jo Holmes and BACP CYPF Executive Committee chair Emma Davies. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

"Completing a training is a tiny part of what makes us practitioners, itself marking the beginning of a whole new journey." Regular column from Sue Kegerreis. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2020

Sue Steer describes her process of working with young people using metaphor and storytelling. BACP member blogs

BACP welcomes the Education and Health and Social Care Committees' damning response to the Government's green paper on Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision

This systematic review aims to add to the substantive knowledge base by updating the literature on the impact of psychosocial interventions for older adult carers and carers of people with dementia published between 2005 and 2011. PDF download.

Jennifer Pitt reflects on how education and counselling can sit comfortably together in an emotionally healthy secondary school. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023