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Supporting your child’s emotional wellbeing Hannah McDonnell Vice Principal, SENCo

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Page 1: Supporting your child’s emotional wellbeing...Supporting your child’s emotional wellbeing Hannah McDonnell Vice Principal, SENCo Resilience Pressures Coping strategies Life –

Supporting your child’s emotional wellbeingHannah McDonnellVice Principal, SENCo

Presenter
Presentation Notes
Developed by Mark Allen (Public Health & Wellbeing, South Gloucestershire Council), Pat Carr and Allison Fry (School Health Nursing), and Claire Morris (The Park Primary School). Feedback gained from parents and carers, and appropriate
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Session one – mental health and emotional wellbeing, pressures

facing children

Session two – common emotional issues and how to respond

Session three – building resilience

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What is mental health?

WellbeingCoping

ThoughtsFeelings

Behaviour

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We all have mental health

Presenter
Presentation Notes
https://www.mind.org.uk/workplace/mental-health-at-work/taking-care-of-yourself/five-ways-to-wellbeing/ More detail around the 5 ways to support well being
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Mental health problems

Disturbances in the way people think, feel and behave 1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem in

any year 10% 5-16 year olds with a diagnosable mental health

problem

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Brain and psychological development

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What impacts on mental health?

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Pressures facing children and young people

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Social media

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Adolescence

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Homework!

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Supporting your child’s emotional wellbeing

Hannah McDonnellVice Principal, SENCo

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Anxiety

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Thoughts

Feelings

Physical sensations

Behaviours

Situation

Presenter
Presentation Notes
CBT – cognitive behaviour therapy
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Low mood and depression

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Self-harm

Often a coping strategy for emotional distress

Be empathic and patient

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Responding to emotional distress

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Listening

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Further support for children and young people

School nurse, school counsellor, pastoral staff GP CAMHS (<18) Off the Record (11+) ChildLine

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Presentation Notes
Help counselling – 9+ https://www.help-counselling.org.uk/ Primary Mental Health Specialist – link via SENCO in school for supportive strategies
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Further support for parents and carers

OTR drop-in YoungMinds parents/carers helpline GP South Gloucestershire Talking Therapies Wellbeing College Wellaware

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mindyou.org.uk

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Homework!

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Supporting your child’s emotional wellbeing

Hannah McDonnellVice Principal, SENCo

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Resilience

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Pressures

Coping strategies

Life – the reality

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Resilience strategies Self care: listening to music, having a bath, exercising,

seeing/talking to people, being creative

Relaxation

Reaching out

Positive activities

Healthy lifestyle – sleep, physical activity, diet, substance use, relationships and sexual health

Healthy social media use

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• Thought challenging – CBT websites / books

• Reading Well – Shelf Help

• Apps – Childline, Headspace

• Gratitude

• Mindfulness

• Character strengths

Presenter
Presentation Notes
Happy Maps - https://www.happymaps.co.uk/primaryschool Offers a range of resources linked to specific behaviours or emotions
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Mindfulnesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T02g5hnT4&t=2s

Presenter
Presentation Notes
Warning – video contains a swear word at the beginning and is repeated twice.
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Character strengths

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Presentation Notes
https://www.connect4wellness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Strength-Cards.pdf 
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What does positive parenting mean to you?

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Supporting your child’s emotional developmentThank you for attending!