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Youth Counselling Practice

These pages contain a range of briefings and sample policies & procedures that will support youth counselling managers and practitioners in providing a high quality service for young people.

Counselling Induction

Guide to Induction for Newly Appointed Counsellors in Youth Information, Advice, Counselling and Support Services

Youth Access, 2009

Guidance materials on the induction of newly appointed youth counsellors, developed in close association with Youth Access members to meet the needs of young people, services and individual counsellors.

Policy Briefing

Access to Counselling Key Findings Briefing (2005)

By Catherine Wilson

The briefing provides an overview of an evaluation examining the relationship between Youth Information, Advice, Counselling and Support Services (YIACS) and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). The key findings identify CAMHS commissioners’ expectations of YIACS and YIACS needs in approaching CAMHS commissioners.

Getting Your Counselling Service Commissioned

Youth Access resources:

Commissioning Young People’s Counselling Services in YIACS. A Toolkit for Managers and Fundraisers of Services (2007)

Author Catherine Wilson

Toolkit to assist YIACS to integrate counselling provision in the planning and commissioning of local emotional and mental health services for young people. It provides busy managers of services with evidence and information to demonstrate to Children trusts and Health commissioners the YIACS contribution to local, national needs and targets.

Commissioning Counselling Services for Young People. A Guide for Commissioners (2007)

By Dr. Cathy Street

The aim of this guide is to assist commissioners charged with the responsibility for services for young people on how to commission counselling services. The guide illustrates how these services fit well with what is known about what works for young people, providing case study examples and the fit with government policy.

External resources:

Reaching Out and Welcoming In (University of Bath and Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, 2004)

Research Findings on Extending Counselling Services to socially excluded young people in Bath and NE Somerset.

National Occupational Standards

The National Occupational Standards for Counselling, 2007