in the vignettes. In conducting interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) with children, Smith
(2004, p. 49) has suggested that ‘practitioners conducting research with these groups can draw on
their own professional experience with clients to help them modify existing protocols when col-
lecting data’. It is for this reason that the draw and write exercise was used as a non-threatening
opening to the topic and as a tool to encourage further discussion using the questions and prompts
detailed where necessary.