YOUTH PARTICIPATION THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

YOUTH PARTICIPATION & THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (CAMHS) - A HERMENEUTIC NARRATIVE REVIEW Emer Conneely, Professionally Qualified Social Worker CORU SW 006869 Ph. D Student Youlead Trainee, School of Psychology, NUIG Email: e. conneely 1@nuigalway. ie Supervisors: Dr Pádraig Mac. Neela & Dr Caroline Heary, Senior Lecturers, School of Psychology, NUIG Co-Author: Dr Dermot Cohen, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist South Galway CAMHS, HSE and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Dept of Psychiatry, NUIG

Youth participation is embraced as a key policy in youth mental health service provision & practice However… Youth participation research at individual & service levels are underdeveloped & fragmented (Viksveen 2017, Bjønness 2020) — empirically and theoretically

Youth Participation & CAMHS A Hermeneutic Narrative Review In order to progress the ‘why’, ‘what’ and how - to’ (UNICEF, 2020) of adolescent participation’ - a hermeneutic narrative approach (see Boell, 2014 in Greenhalgh, 2018) Please email to find out more and/ or interested in the area with an explicit human rights and developmental lens - is used to explore, integrate and respond to the empirical literature in the field. & support existing values-based service developments (see Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2016, Whitaker, 2017)