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Young People 16-24

Content Warning: Self-harm - Why Sleep Matters: Designing Self-harm Research with Young People

Adolescents sometimes go through tough times that might make them think about or engage in self-harm. We believe that sleep problems could play a role in this, which this study aims to uncover.
Sleep • Young people
Blog

Addressing the Global Mental Health Crisis at the 2025 Prix Galien Forum

After surveying our networks, Vanessa Pinfold offered a lived experience perspective on a panel discussing how healthcare systems can deliver solutions at scale to address the mental health crisis.
Sleep • Young people
Infographic
Infographic

Exploring how people with lived experience view new treatments for mood infographic

An infographic presenting the survey feedback prior to the Prix Galien Forum 2025 panel discussion addressing the global mental health crisis.
Global mental health
Project report
Project report

Exploring how people with lived experience view new treatments for mood

A short report compiling survey feedback prior to the Prix Galien Forum 2025 panel discussion addressing the global mental health crisis.
Global mental health
Project

CAMHS Single session Intervention

This project will explore how a single-sessions intervention to CAMHS might help young people referred to the service.
Young people's mental health

CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) Single Session Intervention

This project will explore how a single-sessions intervention to CAMHS might help young people referred to the service.
Blog

Reflections on using a youth jury in research with young people

How do you bring a group of young people together to make decisions on what is important for them? You hold a youth jury!
Digital mental health • Lived experience
News

National audit of psychosis services scoops public involvement award

McPin facilitated the service user and carer reference group for the project, set up to improve psychosis services in England and Wales.
McPin • Psychosis
Young People 11-18

Help shape a new form to help young people say how they’d like their therapy to be

We’re looking for young people (aged 11-18) to take part in an online interview to give feedback on this new form designed to help young people shape their therapy.
Mental health services
Young People 13-25

Online Support Peer Research Project

As part of this project, we are conducting peer-led research focused on understanding what young people’s perceptions of online support are, what we might want and need from it.
Peer support • Young people
Blog

What makes an emotionally healthy school?

McPin’s Emma Garavini and Eva Asiedu-Addo shared their experiences working with young people at a powerful event that centered lived-experience voices of difficult school experiences
Peer support • Young people
News

McPin guest edits journal collection on internet-based mental health interventions

The articles in BMC Public Health, co-guest-edited by McPin research director Vanessa Pinfold, range from participant engagement to preventative measures.
Digital mental health • Interventions
Young People 15-18

ATTEND - Adolescents and carers using mindfulness Therapy to END depression

We are testing the effectiveness of a new type of therapy called MAC for young people are who experiencing low mood / depression. MAC stands for Mindfulness for Adolescents and Carers.
Anxiety • Depression
Blog

A young person's perspective: mental health, youth violence and school exclusions

A McPin YPAG member joined the team at the Xcluded film launch for the PAC project. They share their reflections below.
Young people • Youth violence
News

Research in action: Interactive film exploring youth violence & school exclusions launches

Last week, the London Peer Action Collective (PAC) officially launched the interactive film, XCLUDED, an exploration of youth violence, mental health and school support.
Young people • Youth violence
Project

Bridging Divides

Girls and women are three times more likely than boys and men to struggle with anxiety and depression. We are trying to understand how and why.
Inequality • Young people's mental health
Young People 13-28

Take part in a survey to co-develop a form to help young people share how they’d like their therapy to be

Therapy and counselling • Young people
News

New study report explores school exclusions and youth violence

The new Peer Action Collective (PAC) report exploring young people’s views on how schools can help protect their students from youth violence is now live.
Young people • Youth violence
Project report
Project report

Peer Action Collective: Research findings

The role of schools as a protective factor in youth violence: exploring young people’s experiences of support during exclusions and suspensions in London
Young people • Youth violence
Young people 16-19

What factors influence young people’s engagement with Social Prescribing?

Interventions • Lived experience