Supporting Pupils With Mental Health Difficulties Course

Three children and young people in every classroom experience mental health problems in the UK. The figure for children in care is even high. With children four times more likely to struggle with poor mental health than their peers who are not in care.

Teachers and other school staff have an important role to play in supporting children to be mentally healthy. Therefore knowing the signs can help aid early appropriate intervention. Furthermore, this course enables learners gain the necessary knowledge to understand mental health and also identify the signs and symptoms. It also provides clear guidelines as to your role in supporting children with mental health difficulties.

This course will cover:

• What is mental health
• Mental health and adolescence
• Physical, psychological, emotional and social mental health
• Spotting the signs of a mental health problem
• Types of mental health problems including depression, stress anxiety, eating disorders and self harming
• Suicidal feelings
• How to help
• Having meaningful conversations
• Creating a communication plan
• Child protection and risk assessment
• Refering, concerns and crisis situations

By the end of the training, you will;

• Understand what is mental health
• Know what factors influence mental health
• Understand how poor mental health can affect adolescents
• Recognise the signs and symptoms of poor mental health
• Know how to start conversations about mental health
• Know what to do when there is a low to medium concern for a young person's mental health
• Know how to help a young person with mental health difficulties who has been found in a crisis situation

This Supporting Pupils with Mental Health Difficulties course is for people who want to know about how to support pupils struggling with mental health difficulties. Whilst it provides focus for people working in Education, it will also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know about factors that influence mental health.

We can deliver this course either: online, as a webinar, or as a face-to-face programme. However, if you have your own LMS and would like this course as a SCORM file, please get in touch.