GHS PASTORAL CPD
MENTAL HEALTH
One in six people are aged 10-19 years. Adolescence is a unique and formative time. Physical, emotional and social changes, including exposure to poverty, abuse, or violence, can make adolescents vulnerable to mental health problems. Protecting adolescents from adversity, promoting socio-emotional learning and psychological well-being, and ensuring access to mental health care are critical for their health and well-being during adolescence and adulthood.
Adolescents with mental health conditions are particularly vulnerable to social exclusion, discrimination, stigma (affecting readiness to seek help), educational difficulties, risk-taking behaviours, physical ill-health and human rights violations.
Information lifted from The World Health Organisation Nov 2021- click link below to understand more:
PSHE education equips pupils to adopt healthy behaviours and strategies from an early age, and to seek trustworthy support when they or their friends need it. Protective learning – including good communication, problem-solving, healthy coping skills, resilience and recognising emotions – can reduce the risk of pupils turning to unhealthy coping mechanisms. These factors lay the foundations for more specific learning about mental health later on, including a focus on issues such as depression, anxiety and eating disorders.
The following Powerpoint gives guidance to teachers on the teaching of mental wellbeing.
This is a good episode of the Modern Mind to explain the neuroscience in better managing our mental health. TJ Powers, who talks, uses his social media platforms for practical advice on how to improve your mental health and will always place the science behind this.
The following links are NHS resources. The first provides guidance from their recovery college. They are short videos and includes guidance on how to support a distressed person, coping in difficult times and mindfulness. The second link are short audio guides from a Doctor explaining how to cope with low mood or depression, anxiety, sleep, low confidence and unhelpful thinking.
These links are both available to pupils on the Aspiring Girls Website under Mind - Mental Health - Recovery. The link of which is also below.
This link is for further information and support for your own and other's mental health.