Parents and carers are likely to take on a significant responsibility for managing an adolescent's mental health and well‐being. Accordingly, their perceptions provide insight into the value of an intervention. This study explored parents' and carers' perceptions and expectations of school‐based humanistic counselling, as received by a socially diverse group of young people (13–16 years old) in secondary schools in Greater London, UK. Semi‐structured interviews from 17 parents and carers were analysed thematically. Two superordinate themes were identified: (a) the context of counselling, and (b) the content of counselling, the latter referring to stages of the therapeutic process and its outcomes. Schools were perceived as an ideal environment for the provision of professional mental health support, as it reaches young people in a natural, convenient setting and therefore promotes and/or widens access to universal support, as well as targeted interventions. Parents and carers further emphasised the importance of overall well‐being, academic performance and social relationships.

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… being ourselves pure and not entombed in this which we carry about with us and call the body, in which we are imprisoned like an oyster in its shell (Plato, 250c).Over the past two decades, research has begun to shift its attention towards positive body image, in order to elicit a more holistic and comprehensive account of the concept of body image (for reviews, see Tylka, 2011Tylka, , 2012. Positive body image can be broadly defined by one's love and acceptance of their body and is attained by appreciating the body's uniqueness and functionality (Tylka, 2011(Tylka, , 2012Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015b). Importantly, accumulating evidence suggests positive body image to be associated with outcome variables (e.g. self-esteem, intuitive eating; Avalos & Tylka, 2006;Gillen, 2015;Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015a) either directly or indirectly (e.g. by reducing self-objectification; Menzel & Levine, 2011), over and above aspects of negative body image (Swami, Weis,

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