Full Description
Elevate your support for children's well-being in schools with our user-friendly resource, offering practical strategies and guidance for busy educators to navigate and nurture mental health. You'll deepen your understanding of the key emotional and social challenges children face today through evidence-based techniques for engaging with children and young people at both a preventative level and to recognise and respond to mental health needs as they arise.
Covering topics including developmental trauma, anxiety, eating disorders, school-avoidance, self-harm and more, this handbook is designed for the busy individual seeking to support the well-being of children and young people to dip in and out of as needed.
Perfect for use in school and educational settings, the bounty of information sheets, top tips and key strategies provided can be used to effectively provide the trauma-informed nurture that so many children need.
Contents
1 Understanding Mental Health and the FIRES Framework
2 Understanding Your Role in Supporting Mental Health and Reflective Practice
3 Developing Listening Skills
4 Understanding Attachment and Developmental Trauma
5 Emotion Coaching
6 Understanding Anxiety
7 Supporting Those Who Self-harm
8 Supporting Those with Panic Attacks
9 Understanding and Supporting Those with Depression
10 Grief, Loss and Bereavement
11 Eating Disorders
12 Emotionally Based School Avoidance
13 Suicide
14 Self-care
15 Supervision and Peer Support
A final note
