1st Edition
Participation in Children and Young People’s Mental Health An Essential Guide
Participation in Children and Young People's Mental Health: An Essential Guide aims to break down the historical challenges surrounding children and young people's mental health (CYPMH) participation.
It explores topics from how to conceptualise participation to more practical advice and guidance surrounding how to 'do' participation. Uniquely edited by Experts-by-Experience, it offers useful insights to how participation ought to be led from those with experience in the field. This ground-breaking text is supported by contributors from leading experts, including a mixture of lived experience and academic persepctives, providing a comprehensive dive into key concepts and practical examples to help improve practice. The chapters aim to spark thinking, conversations, and actions in participation and will provide lessons to embed into services, organisations, areas, groups, practice, and work.
This text is an essential guide for trainees and professionals working in CYPMH services which includes the NHS in England, voluntary sector, and other health systems internationally.
Foreword
Stuart Dodzo, Rachel McGuire, Duncan Law, and Kathryn Pugh
1. Introduction
Hannah Sharp and Leanne Walker
2. What is Participation? A Theoretical Framework for Children and Young People's Participation
Yvonne Anderson
3. Tokenism Versus Meaningful Engagement
Leanne Walker
4. The Benefits and Challenges of Participation for Children and Young People
Anna Wilson
5. The Benefits and Challenges of Participation for Children and Young People's Mental Health Services and Those Working Within Them
Sarah Gray
6. Involving Children and Young People in their Own Care
The Midlands Young Advisors
7. A Guide to Parent and Carer Participation
Wendy Minhinnett and Nikki Chapman
8. Involving Children, Young People, Parents, and Carers in Service Development
Hannah Sharp and Demi
9. Involving Children and Young People in Mental Health Research
Cathy Street and Amanda Cooper
10. Involving Younger Children
Ann Cox
11. Engaging with Diverse Communities
Zaynab "ZeZe" Sohawon, Harry Dixon, and Amari Creak
12. Participation in the Community Versus Inpatient Settings
Hannah Sharp, Trafford Youth Cabinet, Carol Anne Murphy, Lucy North and Sarah Hutchins
13. Peer Support: An Alternative Approach to Using Lived Experience
Oli Hawley
14. Why Participation Requires Systemic Culture Change and How We Get There
Hannha Sharp
15. Future Progress
Hannah Sharp and Leanne Walker
Biography
Hannah Sharp is an international consultant on patient participation in children and young people’s mental health services. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social and Political Sciences with Philosophy.
Leanne Walker has worked for the last decade, locally, nationally and internationally in the mental health lived experienced field and has a postgraduate certificate in transformational leadership.
