Improving the mental health and mental health support available to adolescents with social care-experience via low-intensity life story work: a realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adolescents are the fastest growing group entering social care and are most at risk of mental ill-health. Life Story Work (LSW) is an existing transdiagnostic intervention thought to improve the well-being and mental health of children and adolescents under the care of a local authority by assisting the processing of trauma. Yet LSW is poorly evidenced, lacks standardisation and focuses on younger children. LSW is also high-intensity, relying on specialist input over several months. Adolescent-focused low-intensity-LSW is a promising alternative. However, there is poor evidence on how LSW, let alone low-intensity-LSW should be delivered to adolescents. We aim to identify why, how, in what contexts, for whom and to what extent low-intensity-LSW interventions can be deli

SUBMITTER: Hammond SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8915363 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature