Connor, Charlotte (2017) Listen and learn : engaging young people, their families and schools in early intervention research. Medical Humanities, 43 . pp. 124-129. doi:10.1136/medhum-2016-011090 ISSN 1468-215X.

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Abstract

Recent policy guidelines highlight the importance of increasing the identification of young people at risk of developing mental health problems in order to prevent their transition to longer-term problems, avoid crisis and remove the need for care through specialist mental health services or hospitalisation. Early awareness of the often insidious behavioural and cognitive changes associated with deteriorating mental wellbeing, however, is difficult, but it is vital if young people, their families and those who work with them are to be fully equipped with the skills to aid early help seeking.
Our early intervention research continues to highlight the necessity of engaging with and listening to the voices of young people, families, and those who work with children and young people, not only in developing greater understanding of why some young people may be more be at-risk in terms of their mental health, but to provide children and young people with the best mental health support we can.
Collaborative working with young people, their families and those who work with them has been an essential dimension of our youth mental health research in Birmingham, UK, enabling us to listen to the personal narratives of those with lived experience and to work alongside them. This paper highlights some of our key studies and how we have endeavored to make intra-agency working successful at each stage of the research process through increasing use of digital and youth informed resources to engage young people; a methodology which continues to inform, guide and develop our early intervention research and implementation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Teenagers -- Mental health, Adolescent psychopathology, Adolescent psychiatry, Child mental health services, Mentally ill teenagers -- Care
Journal or Publication Title:	Medical Humanities
Publisher:	B M J Group
ISSN:	1468-215X
Official Date:	1 June 2017
Dates:	Date Event 1 June 2017 Published 30 May 2017 Available 28 March 2017 Accepted
Volume:	43
Page Range:	pp. 124-129
DOI:	10.1136/medhum-2016-011090
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	3 April 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access:	11 August 2017
Funder:	National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR), Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)

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