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Workshop: Practitioners’ and young people’s views on social prescribing
Led by: Daniel Hayes and Emily Stapley from the Developing Social Prescribing to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing for Children & Young People Project
This workshop discussed the findings from research on practitioners’ and young people’s views on social prescribing. Attendees then went on to discuss developing future research questions, and actions to further the field of social prescribing with young people.
Three key messages:
- There are number of barriers which impede social prescribing happening for children and young people – many of which are unique to this population
- Work needs to be undertaken across the different system levels (individual, organisational, cultural) levels to address these
- Future research should focus on understanding and addressing barriers from minoritized groups which are currently under-represented in social prescribing
This workshop was connected to our Supporting the Supporters research challenge: How can young people, family members, and settings be better enabled to help promote good mental health and prevent and overcome emerging mental health problems?
Artwork from Tom Bailey (@tombaileyart).
Further Resources
Workshop Live Tweets
You can read a great thread below from Molly Murray who live-tweeted the workshop via @smollypsych.
THREAD
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022
Now another workshop from @DanHayesPhD and @em_stape, exploring practitioners' and young people’s views on social prescribing@EmergingMindsUK #EmergingMinds pic.twitter.com/eZlJGTcaBa
@em_stape spoke of numerous barriers for practitioners which impede social prescribing happening for children and young people. For example….
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022
1/lack of policies and procedures specific to working with young people#EmergingMinds@EmergingMindsUK
2/ lack of appropriate spaces for young people
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022
3/ having appropriate clinical supervision (which is a structure to ensure support for workers which can also help the support that is being provided to the young people)
4/ not feeling confident engaging with parents or guardians
There are also some facilitators for practitioners:
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022
1/ knowledge of local community assets
2/ having appropriate clinical supervision
3/ being able to provide young people with opportunities and experiences that they may not otherwise have
@em_stape also highlighted some barriers and facilitators for young people:
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022
1/ Need for support to access engagement
2/ The role of shared decisions
3/ The role of resources
4/ Expectations and beliefs #EmergingMinds
A task from the workshop: ranking barriers and facilitators to social prescribing. How would you rank the importance of these? #EmergingMinds @EmergingMindsUK pic.twitter.com/e9bGaMAQtS
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022
A lot of groups completing this task found it challenging to rank the importance of these. Groups came up with very similar 'clumps' of what they saw as the most important barriers/facilitators to social prescribing#EmergingMinds @EmergingMindsUK
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022
For example:
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022
– YP being actively involved in deciding the activities that they can take part in
– Young people understanding how social prescribing can help
– Knowledge of local community assets
– Pots of funding#EmergingMinds @EmergingMindsUK
Some interesting links were shared during this workshop on social prescribing. Firstly, a link to a preprint article exploring the barriers and facilitators to social prescribing in child and young mental health #EmergingMinds @EmergingMindsUK https://t.co/4f5fHaUrv1
— Molly Murray (@smollypsych) October 17, 2022