The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust Teen Pain Book

I don’t feel daunted because transition services have been preparing me

We were asked by The Walton Centre to help create a transition booklet to help young people with chronic pain transition from paediatric to adult care.

Rachael worked closely with the clinical team to create content that was simple and easy for young people to understand. It’s a complex topic that needed sensitivity and clear information.

We ran three workshops with The Studio School in Liverpool to garner the ideas and feedback from young people there to help shape the look and feel of this book, which the Walton Centre then showed to a group of patients for their feedback.

The process was really insightful and brutal - there is nothing quite the stinging feedback from a teenager ha ha! Seriously though, that’s the way to get results and it was an absolute pleasure working with such a lovely team.

The final product was made into a printed book and a PDF for online use, which can be found here. To ensure all patients were covered, Walton also received a fully accessible version for screen readers.

An image of a red haired teenager holding open the chronic pain book. it shows the cover which is yellow with black and white image of a young woman on the front. It says Chronic Pain in large black letters and information about Transitioning to Adul
An Image of someone holding their phone in their left hand. The screen shows one of the pages from the book with information about questions to ask before you transition
An image of an ipad. On the screen is an orange background with the title Older me and a young teen in black and white on the left.
An Image of a person holding open the booklet to show a double page in the book. The page is white with a black and white image of a young man in the middle with pink accents.
An Image of a person holding open the booklet to show a double page in the book. The page is white with a black and white image of a female psychotherapist in the middle with orange accents.
An image of the cover of the booklet which is yellow with black and white image of a young woman on the front. It looks like torn paper at the bottom. It says Chronic Pain in large black letters and information about Transitioning to Adult Services u
An image of the top half of a young man's face looking up. Behind him is a yellow background with words in black like believed, guilt burden, relationship, rejected around him.
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