Understanding the style of therapy you want (for young people)

Welcome to our young person’s questionnaire page.

On this page, you can complete a short series of questions – the Understanding Preferences in Counselling (U-PIC) form – which is designed to help you find out about the sort of therapy you might want, and to help you tell your counsellor or psychotherapist about it. It is entirely up to you whether or not to answer these questions and to share them with your therapist.

U-PIC Understanding Preferences in Counselling

Please let us know what you would like in your therapy by selecting one box in each row. It’s fine if you don’t know, don’t mind, or want both options the same: just mark the middle box. There are two sides to each set of options, so take a little time to consider both before you decide.

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Young Person's Questionnaire Resources

Download the U PIC young person’s preference questionnaire for your region, with therapist guidelines.

If no downloads are available for your region, we recommend you choose the closest alternative.

Young Person's Resources

Our young people

The young people behind the research

We work closely with young people, through the McPin Foundation, to develop the U-PIC form.

Hemlata Pant

3rd Year MSci Biochemistry Student

Hemlata is a 3rd Year MSci Biochemistry student with a broad and interdisciplinary interest in all things science. She is passionate about advocacy, improving the mental health of young people, and academic research into women’s health.

Eliska Tylova

Medical Student

My name is Eliska Tylova, I am currently a medical student, and I joined McPin to use my own experiences and reflections on mental health in a positive and meaningful way by contributing them to mental health research. I believe it is important that negative experiences and observations can, in fact, be used, through the lens of projects such as the development of U-PIC, to improve counselling and therapy.