Full Description
Helps teachers to identify and support primary-aged children with mental health needs, providing a range of evidence-based tools.
The mental health and well-being of children in primary schools is a current concern.
Do you feel equipped to identify mental health needs in your pupils?
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 of
evidence-based strategies and tools. It introduces the various risk factors
involved, shows how you can build resilience in children, and focuses on identifying and supporting both specific mental health needs and particular groups of pupils.
Contents
Introduction 1. Factors that put children at risk 2. Factors that make children more resilient 3. Identifying and supporting children with possible mental health needs 4. Working in partnership to support identification and meeting needs 5. Supporting specific groups of learners 6. What next? Issues for consideration post-identification Conclusions references Index