Mental Health difficulties in children

Fantastic guide from the Anna Freud Centre. This booklet aims to support all staff working in school settings to understand how best to help the children and young people in their care in terms of their mental health.

Children who are vulnerable are likely to find the changes to their lives difficult to manage. This booklet shares some of the insights gathered from research and practice. By the Anna Freud Centre.

A powerful way of approaching mental health in schools. This programme facilitator toolkit is created by the Anna Freud Centre.

This resource includes excellent advice, strategies and approaches to support parents. It outlines how we can help children express their feelings, respond appropriately, and prevent small problems from snowballing into bigger ones. From the Anna Freud Centre.

For Mental Health Awareness Week 2020, the Mental Health Foundation chose to highlight and celebrate kindness, to others, to ourselves, and in society more broadly, as one way to promote and protect good mental health for all.

This advice from the DFE aims to help schools to support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour.

Creating mentally healthy schools will always be a task for the whole school community rather than one individual. No matter how much or little your school currently does to support good mental health, there are still things you can do as an individual teacher to improve the situation. From the Mental Health Foundation.

A lovely visual guide for parents from the Mental Health Foundation. Top tips all about developing positive mental health.

Heads Up! A toolkit of sessions to run with young people to promote mental health and emotional well-being from the Mental Health Foundation.