Children and young people practice research network (CYP PRN)
For practitioners, researchers and trainers

CYP PRN promotes and supports research to improve the quality and effectiveness of counselling services for children and young people.

CYP PRN aims to improve the psychological health and emotional wellbeing of children and young people in the UK.

We bring together practitioners, researchers and trainers to engage in research and gather evidence for the effectiveness of school and community based counselling services for children and young people.

We use the research findings to:

improve the effectiveness and acceptability of counselling interventions for service users
widen access to these services by influencing policy makers and commissioners

Our aims and objectives

to promote awareness of and engagement in ethical practice-based research
to support the needs of practitioners, services and researchers, and promote the inter-relationship of research and practice
to act as a point of contact for school and community-based counselling services for children and young people
to build capacity in researching counselling and psychotherapy for children and young people and create a sustainable network of practitioner-researchers
to promote the use of diverse research methods
to promote and support the measurement of outcomes through our toolkit

Toolkit for collecting routine outcome measures

Join CYP PRN

CYP PRN is free to join and you don't have to be a BACP member. For further information, please email research@bacp.co.uk.

CYP PRN members contact each other through JISCMail and you'll be added to the mailing list when you join. You can withdraw from the list at any time. For further information, see the JISCMail privacy notice.