Filling the Gap? Young People’s Use of AI for Mental Health Support
The findings reveal a rapidly developing reality: 43% of children said they had used a mental health app or chatbot for emotional support or advice in the…
An Update from Your NCPS Wales Representative
Please see below for an update from Cherelle Mead , NCPS Wales Representative , on her work to build connections across Wales and ensure our members’ voices…
Retirement, Identity and the Experience of Ageing
Retirement is often described as a positive life transition: an opportunity to rest, travel, pursue interests and enjoy greater freedom. Yet for some, the…
Support for Jurors: NCPS Provides Evidence to Support the Justice & Home Affairs Committee
The Society submitted evidence in support of the work of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee in their inquiry around support for jurors. The Society would…
A Future Worth Imagining: Reframing Hope in the Context of Dementia
Hope occupies a distinctive role in therapeutic practice. Dementia introdudes complexity to this conceptualisation regarding hope. Ultimately, they may need…
I'm Older. I'm Not Finished
There is an incongruence between the woman I see and the woman I experience myself to be. Sometimes, despite knowing perfectly well that I am older, I still…
On Ageing, Control and the Things We Learn to Let Go
We considered the expectations attached to different stages of life, the fear of running out of time, and the paradoxical fact that some of the changes we…
What We Gain as We Grow Older: Lessons From Listening
Years ago, while conducting research with older adults, I had the privilege of listening to people in their sixties, seventies, eighties and beyond talk about…
Thousands more young people to access help with life's biggest challenges
42 new Young Futures Hubs to open across England, reversing a decade of decline in local youth services. From Cornwall to Northumberland, mental health…
The Words, Sentences and Chapters That Shape Us
Plans shifted from celebrations abroad, to a city break, to a small gathering of friends and family in outdoor pods. I started to take stock of my life,…
Neuro-affirming practice: what counsellors and psychotherapists need to know when working with autistic clients and those with attention differences
Why this matters now More people than ever are seeking therapy as autistic people, people with attention differences, or both. Autistic people and people with…
The Myth of the Linear Path: Why Year 11 Pressure Fails Our Young People
As someone who navigated my twenties and enters my early thirties with a career path that looks nothing like the one I envisioned at 16, I can offer both…
