Positive Mental Health – serie

The mental health of young people in secondary schools is a current concern.Do you feel equipped to identify mental health needs in your learners?Do you have the knowledge and understanding to adequately support them?Do you understand where your responsibilities start and stop?This book helps you address these questions and more, providing a range ofevidence-based strategies and tools. It introduces the various risk factorsinvolved, shows how you can build resilience in your students, and focuseson identifying and supporting both specific mental health needs and particulargroups of learners.

Is mental health provision a concern in your school?Are you looking to develop a whole school approach to mental health issues?Do you need targeted, evidence-informed strategies?Suitable for both primary and secondary age phases, this book is exactly what you need by giving you targeted strategies for developing a whole school approach to mental health provision. The importance of creating a whole school culture which promotes a positive attitude towards mental health is emphasised throughout.Now completely revised to be relevant for a post-pandemic world, it provides:concise and practical guidance,practical case studies,thought-provoking questions to encourage reader reflection, andsupportive techniques taken from teaching practice.The case studies reflect practice from schools that have completed the mental health award, including scenarios involving Senior Mental Health leads in schools, and there is new content related to:the impact of Covid-19,developing a mental health curriculum,partnership working,vulnerable groups and individuals,mental health interventions,supporting staff well-being, andage-phase-specific considerations.