ABSTRACT
This chapter is an exploration of the benefits and challenges of participation for children and young people themselves. It is a chapter built upon lived experience, with direct examples given from young people of their experiences throughout. These personal narratives are drawn upon to extract key lessons from them about how we can do participation better, and what the benefits are for young people when it is done right. It touches upon areas from the benefits for personal development and recovery, to the risks to the therapeutic relationship when participation in individual care is done badly.
