Research & Practice
Our team has a collection of previous research and other work on hope.
The development of HOPEFUL
The HOPEFUL package was developed with and for young women who are not in education, employment, and training (NEET). We received some funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) UK in 2022 for a development project. In this project, we worked with young women who were NEET, their relatives, and professionals who supported them. We interviewed these groups and held design workshops with young women and professionals. We worked with peer researchers (young women with experience of mental health and social problems) throughout the project. We created a ‘blueprint’ of the HOPEFUL intervention.
The short video below will tell you more about this project and the full project report is published in an open access scientific journal.
Media and general publications
Hope matters
The power of hope as a psychological resource for young people
Research papers
Developing a hope-focused intervention to prevent mental health problems and improve social outcomes for young women who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET)
The light at the end of the tunnel?
A systematic review and lived-experience panel analysis of hopefulness in youth depression treatment.
The mediating role of social connectedness and hope in the relationship between group membership continuity and mental health problems for vulnerable young people.
Beliefs in social inclusion: Invariance in associations between hope, dysfunctional attitudes and social inclusion across adolescence and young adulthood.
Direct and indirect associations between dysfunctional attitudes, self-stigma, hopefulness and social inclusion in young people experiencing psychosis.
An exploration of young people’s narratives of hope following experience of psychosis.
Hope-inspiring therapeutic relationships, professional expectations and social inclusion for young people with psychosis.
