Because
change
is possible ...
Youth Untroubled is changing the way childhood emotional and behavioural difficulties are understood, assessed and treated.
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Many of the therapeutic and support services that are intended to help children and young people address their difficulties don’t always fit the bill. Long waiting lists, brief or unsuitable interventions for inadequately understood problems, multiple professionals trying to tackle different problems in different ways. And what about when children and young people simply refuse to engage with the services finally offered to them?
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We believe the key to affecting sustainable change in a child or young person is to focus on the adults closest to them and provide them with the skills to change the young person’s behaviour and improve their emotional wellbeing.
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And, guess what? It works.
What we do
We use an evidence-based, innovative, multi-systems approach to create bespoke, needs-led interventions - including our highly acclaimed Intensive Systemic Therapy Around the Child (ISTAC) programme, and adaptations of the model including ISTAC Transitions (for young people currently in out-of-home placements including CAMHS inpatient units), ISTAC Schools and Colleges, and ISTAC Harmful Sexual Behaviour (HSB). Our therapeutic approach has been developed in accordance with NICE guidelines to support children with Autism and other neuro-developmental conditions.
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We also offer a range of free, live and interactive parenting workshops tackling a range of childhood issues, as well as short courses (coming soon), 1:1 parenting consultations and ongoing support sessions, plus training for professionals in a multitude of settings, and professional consultation services.
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Whether you’re a parent, carer, education or healthcare provider, or any other professional working day-in day-out with children and young people, our team of highly skilled clinicians and clinical consultants are here, ready to help YOU support your children and young people to thrive.
"I'm really worried about my child"
Are you concerned about your child's emotional wellbeing or behaviour?
Are things getting worse?
Do you feel like you've tried everything yet nothing is working?
Our team of highly skilled therapists and consultants are ready to listen and guide you. Book a 1:1 parenting consultation at a time that suits you.
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About Us
The Youth Untroubled team initially developed the ISTAC model (also known as Systemic Integrative Treatment) in 2017, whilst working at the Brandon Centre, London. It is an adaptation of Multisystemic Therapy (MST), developed in accordance with NICE guidelines to better meet the needs of children and families with complex and multiple problems, and ultimately reduce out-of-home placements for children deemed beyond parental control. The model has been commissioned by several local authorities and mental health trusts across London, and nationally by F-CAMHS, and has been evaluated in a study by the Youth Endowment Fund.
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In 2022, the Youth Untroubled founders decided the time had come to expand provision of the model outside of London - and Youth Untroubled Ltd was born. We also started adapting the original model so that other children, young people and young adults with differing complex needs could benefit from our intensive, goal-orientated, community-based, multi-systems approach to assessing, treating and overcoming problems.
We have since devised various adaptations of the model, including brief interventions such as parenting workshops and 1:1 consultations. The Youth Untroubled team are currently providing ISTAC across the South of England, piloting the Youth Untroubled for Schools/Colleges Project in Sussex, and providing brief parenting advice and support services and interventions, and specialist consultation and training for other professionals, nationally.