## Youth Loneliness Scale Project *Session at the CEL conference 08.02.2024* - co-produce a developmentally sensitive questionnaire measurement for youth loneliness - people young as 8 can recognise difference between loneliness and being alone. - imagery can be darkness, a weight on your chest, cloud following you, an empty room. - feelings of being unloved, like a burden, misunderstood, like they had no-one to turn to. - Common experience but varies in intensity. - Key issues so far are links between social connections and the relationship with themselves. ==Not getting on with people = makes you withdraw = not get on with people. Cyclical==. - Feeling different/ excluded.