Life Story Work with young people
Life Story Work offers benefits to young people and those who care for them for both care-experienced young people and others - read more below.
Young people
Life Story Work can help
unaddressed mental health needs as an intervention focusing on relationships, identity, and externalising behaviours. It is both an effective and cost-effective means of better supporting mental health needs and improving the support available to young people, especially when the work is young person-led.
Life Story Work can support young people to understand and control strong feelings, develop identity and emotional self-regulation, and find creative ways of expressing what is important to them.
Parents and carers
This work helps people to improve their understanding of, and engagement with, the young people they care for, through better insight into someone’s whole life and internal world.
Life Story Work, both process and product, support present and future communication, interaction, and exploration of someone’s past, present, and future.
The work helps facilitate meaningful relationships and connection, helping parents and carers handle emotional and behavioural challenges compassionately and effectively.