About the 'Your Choice' Programme
By moving beyond understanding why a child may behave in a certain way to providing tools and techniques which practitioners can employ to help the child to keep themselves safe.
- An approach to practice underpinned by CBT
- Upskilling practitioners & young people alike; to take young people on journey of “guided discovery” and equip them with tools and techniques that can be useful in overcoming a range of psychological challenges
- Recognises the importance of and commitment to consistency in relationships whilst providing accessible methods for clinical intervention
- Provides access to clinical supervision to support practitioners understanding and formulation of young person’s presentation and associated plans
"This programme has the opportunity to be quite transformational."
Your Choice will provide CBT additionality but work within the rich tapestry of existing theraputic delivery.
If successful, this ambitious programme will influence national and international practice and the programme therefore requires a robust evaluation mechanism to measure impact and outcomes of the approach. Work is ongoing with our evaluators (the Anna Freud Centre and the Institute for Fiscal Studies) to devise a proportionate randomised control trial of the programme, which does not distort practice or deny access to services.