DCP Faculty for Children, Young People, and their Families

Resources

Articles

• Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies: Some personal reflections one year in
  This article written by Duncan Law appeared in the April 2013 edition of Clinical Psychology Forum.

• What's in a name? Findings and issues from the CYPF Faculty survey on diagnosis
  This article is a report presenting results, themes, reflections and implications of a Faculty survey on diagnosis written by Ro Rossiter and Rebecca Arena. This article appeared in the March 2021 edition of Clinical Psychology Forum.

Tips for working with children, young people and their families

• Seeing a Clinical Psychologist

Understanding Formulation for Young People - Service User Leaflet

• Download the leaflet 'Understanding Formulation for Young People'

Useful links

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health 
• Association for Infant Mental Health 
• CAMHS Evidence-Based Practice Unit
• CORC
• Department of Health
• HCPC
• MindEd
• National Children's Bureau
• Royal College of Occupational Therapists
• Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• Sure Start
• Time to change
• Young Minds

Leaflets

• Babies and pre-school children: Psychological services in Early Years mental health and emotional wellbeing settings 
• Children and young people in schools and colleges: Guidelines for good quality psychological wellbeing and mental health services 
• Children and young people with physical health needs: How psychological services contribute to the care pathway 
• Children, young people and families experiencing psychological difficulties: Delivering psychological services in inpatient settings 
• Clinical and applied psychologists in child and adolescent mental health services: Recommendations about numbers, gradings and leadership 
• Community Psychology approaches with children, young people and families: Working with whole communities 
• Delivering psychological services for children and young people involved with the criminal justice system, those at risk of involvement, and their families
• Delivering psychological services for children and young people with neurodevelopmental difficulties and their families 
• Delivering psychological services for children, young people with learning disabilities and their families 
• Delivering psychological services in specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) 
• Psychological services for children, young people and families with complex social care needs including looked after children

Publications

Child and Family Clinical Psychology Review 2024 – call for papers

We are putting a call out for papers for the next edition of our flagship journal, The Child & Family Clinical Psychology Review, which will be titled: From shallow roots to developing fruits: working together to help children and families without permanent homes thrive and grow.

Following on from our 2022-23 theme 'Hear me, don't blame me' which focussed on trauma informed and non-blaming approaches to working with children, young people and their families, in 2024 we are maintaining a trauma-informed, non-blaming perspective but with a focus on children and young people who do not have permanent homes and/or are living in temporary arrangements.

This could be for a variety of reasons including being:

• Homeless and/or living in temporary accommodation and/or having frequent moves
• An asylum seeker or refugee
• In the care system
• In the criminal justice system
• In a family fleeing domestic abuse

The number of children and young people in some of these groups is rising, and whilst we recognise that not all of them will be struggling, we are concerned that they are often disproportionately affected by a range of issues and challenges compared with the wider population.

This is compounded by intersectionality, with some ethnic groups, socio-economic groups or genders over-represented and perhaps experiencing additional difficulties as a result. Despite this, we know that support and services may be harder for these children, young people and their families to access.

We are encouraged that there is an increasing recognition of these issues, and at a local level, there are examples of good practice and innovative approaches.

Within the Review we would like to explore a variety of ways of improving psychological wellbeing for children and young people who do not have permanent homes and/or are living in temporary arrangements, and their families.

This may include direct and indirect support and intervention and multi-agency work, but also consideration of what is needed at a systems level.

We are interested in hearing from a range of settings and authors and would encourage papers co-produced by young people or parents/carers as well as from professionals.

Please send us a short expression of interest before writing your article. The editorial team is also happy to discuss possible submissions. We can be contacted via Rachel Bradley [email protected]

Articles should be around 2,500-3,500 words, and no longer than 5,000 words, including references. Please include a 250-300 word summary box of up to five bullet points outlining the key points of your article.

Submissions should comply with the BPS style guide.

Please ensure that your contact details (email and/or postal address), are included at the end of the article. Also:

• Include the first names of all authors and any relevant job titles and affiliations
• Please include a word count at the end (including references)
• Do not include tables and figures unless they are essential and save space or add to the article. All figures should be in black and white and easily reproducible
• We reserve the right to shorten, amend and hold back copy if needed

Please send submissions by Friday 31 May 2024 to [email protected].

Our target publication date is November 2024.

Research Awards

We are inviting applications for one of three awards for research that has demonstrated innovation, impact, and benefit for the psychological wellbeing of children, young people, families, and/or children's services (e.g., mental and physical health services, education settings, local authority services, etc.). The winner of each award will receive £200 in vouchers and winners will be announced at the Faculty conference in November 2024.

Undergraduate/Masters Dissertation Award

This award recognises outstanding contributions to psychological knowledge relating to children, young people and families, arising from the completion of a dissertation during a BPS-accredited undergraduate or Masters degree in psychology. Applicants for this award do not have to be members of the BPS.

Clinical Psychology Trainee Thesis Award

This award recognises outstanding contributions to psychological knowledge relating to children, young people and families, arising from research completed as part of a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Applicants for this award do not have to be members of the BPS.

Clinical Psychologist Research Award

This award recognises outstanding contributions to psychological theory and practice relating to children, young people and families. The research may take the form of an audit, evaluation, service development, multimethod knowledge generation, review, or clinical trial, for example. The application will be assessed for the impact the research has had on young people, families and services, innovation for research and practice, and the resulting benefits to individuals and/or systems.

Applicants for this award need to be members of the DCP and/or the Faculty for Children, Young People and Families.

Submission instructions

The deadline for submissions is 01 September 2024.

Submissions can be made by the person completing the project or by their tutor/supervisor. The project should have been completed after 01 September 2022.

Please submit a 500-word statement and one optional A4 page of supporting evidence as to how the project was innovative, had a positive impact, and benefitted the psychological wellbeing of children, young people, families, and/or children's services. 

Submissions will be judged according to the expected scope and scale of projects at each award level. The judging panel will be a sub-group of committee members from the Faculty for Children, Young People and Families.

Make a submission for one of our awards now

If you have any issues accessing this link please contact [email protected].

Committee

Chair: Rachel Bradley

Past Chair: Helen Griffiths

Publication and Communication Officer: Bethanne Willingham

Committee Members

• Deborah Thorp
• Debbra Mortlock
• Sarah Parry
• Liam Gilligan
• Irena Komendova
• Elisa Marcellino
• Helen O'Connor

Forum for Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychology Services (FICAPS) representative: Paul Abeles

Learning Disability Network representative: Bethanne Willingham

Paediatric Psychology Network UK (PPN-UK) representative: Yvonne Vance

Clinical Psychologists in Education representative: Helen O'Connor

Pre-Qualifications representative: Kate Cudmore

Wales representative: Bethan Phillips

Join

Apply to join the faculty (students, affiliates, e-subscribers)

Apply to join the faculty (graduate, chartered, and in-training members)

Membership of the Faculty for Children, Young People, and their Families is only open to members of the British Psychological Society.

There are three grades of faculty membership:

• Full membership

  For psychologists who are Full Members of the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) and who work in or have an interest or expertise in the field of children and young people.

• Affiliate membership

  For psychologists who are General (Pre-Training) and In-Training members of the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP). Affiliate members may take part in discussions but may not vote.

• Associate membership

  For General members of the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) and non-Division members. Associate members may take part in discussions but may not vote.

If you are not already a member, you can join the faculty at the same time as applying for membership of the society.

Apply to join the society

Benefits of belonging

The Faculty supports members to deliver high quality psychologically informed services for children, young people and their families through our regular newsletters, CPD events, conference, publications on specific topics and the Child and Family Clinical Psychology Review. 

To receive newsletters Faculty members need to opt into receiving email communication and provide a working email address. These preferences can be updated by logging into the member portal.

For any queries, please contact Member Network Services . 

The Faculty also has a number of sub-groups relating to specialist areas with the field of Children, Young People and their Families. Membership of the sub-groups is free for Faculty members.

More information about the sub-groups can be found on the 'About' tab.

To join a faculty sub-group please contact Member Network Services stating which sub-group you would like to join.

Join the Faculty Committee

The work of the Faculty is largely achieved through the dedication of unpaid volunteers who have joined the main Faculty committee or support the running of the different sub-groups.

Our volunteers come from a wide range of different backgrounds, whether they be practitioners or academics, full members or in-training members, and together form an open and inclusive community.

The experience of being part of this can be very rewarding personally and professionally and we are always pleased to hear from members who would like to become involved.

If you would like to find out more please contact Member Network Services.