March 2018

Beginning recruitment - schools and counselling organisations

Thank you for following this project. We (myself, Mick Cooper and Chris Evans) hope to provide you with regular updates on the progress of this research project and are keen to hear your thoughts and ideas as we go. We are currently in the process of recruiting: Schools to take part in the 'non-clinical' or community data collection Clinical, or counselling organisations We have already had initial conversations with a number of schools and organisations and are hopeful that this will result in a large and varied pool of data to allow us to conduct our longitudinal analysis. If you are from, or know of an organisation that uses the YP-CORE to collect data from young people in counselling, or therapy, please get in touch with me at blackshe@roehampton.ac.uk. If you are interested in hearing more about this research, I will also be presenting a poster at the BACP conference on Friday 11th May 2018 at the University of Roehampton https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/research/conference/ This will focus on my recent systematic review on life events that occur over the course of psychotherapy/counselling for young people, which we intend to look at in relation to change in scores on the YP-CORE. If you are attending and interested in hearing more about life events in therapy, or the YP-CORE project in general, please come and say hello. Emily Blackshaw blackshe@roehampton.ac.uk