Mental Health Resources
RESOURCE LIST:
This is a list of useful references and websites related to young people’s emotional well-being and mental health.
Books:
Dogra, N., Parkin, A. Gale, F. & Frake, C. (2002) A multidisciplinary handbook of child and adolescent mental health for front-line professional. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
- Promoting emotional health and wellbeing through the National Healthy School Standard
Highlights the valuable benefits of promoting the emotional health and wellbeing of pupils and staff, and provides practical advice and case studies on how to go about it. Available online.
Websites:
The HandsOnScotland Toolkit is an online resource for anybody working with children and young people.
This website is designed to help you make a difference to children and young people's lives, by giving you tools to respond helpfully when they are troubled.
It is a one-stop shop for practical information and techniques on how to respond helpfully to children and young people's troubling behaviour, build up their self-esteem and promote their positive mental wellbeing.
This website covers various aspects related to mental health and emotional well-being. It has information and descriptions about a range of psychiatric diagnoses in childhood and adolescence. Descriptions & Roles of Mental Health Professionals. A Glossary of Mental Health Concerns and links to various other websites.
YoungMinds produce leaflets and booklets to help young people, professionals parents and carers to understand when a young person feels troubled and where to find help.
The YoungMinds Parents’ Information Service (0800 018 2138) provides information and advice for anyone with concerns about the mental health of a child or young person. This is a free service offering a confidential helpline for any adult concerned about a child’s mental health. Tel: 0800 018 2138. Opening hours: Mon & Fri 10 am – 1 pm; and Tues, Wed & Thurs 1 pm – 4 pm & Wed 6pm-8pm.
This is a comprehensive website on mental health (and mental illness) in the UK, run by the Mental Health Foundation, the leading UK charity working in mental health and learning disabilities. It contains a range of information on problems, treatments and strategies for living with mental distress, including work with children and young people (Bright Futures). This website provides booklets produced by the organisation on mental health issues. They have also been involved in research around children and young people’s mental health.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional and educational body for psychiatrists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It has numerous factsheets and information related to children and young people’s mental health as well as adult mental health. The link below is particularly relevant to those working with young people and want information for young people, their parents and teachers.
This is the Third edition of this popular publication which now includes 36 factsheets covering an even wider range of mental health issues. The aim is to provide practical and up-to-date information about the emotional and psychiatric disorder which can affect children and young people.
This site will help you to find information about the Solihull Approach.
The Solihull Approach is an integrated model of working; open learning resource packs and training programme for care professionals working with families’ babies, children and young people who are affected by emotional and behavioural difficulties. It is an early intervention model and is also used for prevention and group work. This is being rolled out across Kent and more information about this can be accessed on this website. The Solihull Kids web site also has information about children with various problems and difficulties.
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales. They work to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress.
This website has a summary of some of the notable features of modern day Child and Adolescent Psychiatry including contributions from various countries, various disciplines and on varying topics.
Mental Health Matters was founded to supply information and resources to mental health consumers, professionals, students and supporters.
Mentality is the first national team dedicated solely to the promotion of mental health. (this department has now closed but they still have resources available on this link).
The Association aims to bring together professionals working to promote the mental health of infants, such as psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nursery nurses, teachers, CPNs, health visitors, midwives, GPs, paediatricians and others.
This is part of the Care Services Improvement Partnership and they have a number of areas of work that support better services for children and families which are delivered through the Regional Development Centres. The programme is jointly sponsored by the Department of Health and Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Their main aim is to support real change and better outcomes for children in generic and targeted services, helping services to implement Every Child Matters, the Children Act 2004 and parts of the National Service Framework (NSF) for children, young people and maternity services.
The Childline helpline is free for children and young people – tel: 0800 1111
Their website includes lots of useful information and advice.
If you want to find out about local youth counselling services try the directory on the Youth Access website
This website provides lots of information about mental health issues for young people, parents and teachers. It also includes a very useful directory of CAMHS across the UK.
Surrey CAMHS has a yearly 'Feeling Good Week', aimed to raise young people's awareness of things they can do to make themselves and others feel good about who they are. This webpage includes many useful resources for schools to think about issues of emotional well-being and mental health
MindMatters is a resource and professional development programme to support Australian secondary schools in promoting and protecting the social and emotional wellbeing of members of school communities. It has very useful fact sheets as well as activities for schools.
Beatbullying toolkits give professionals working in the area the information, resources and we hope the confidence to approach bullying in a sensitive, well informed and skilled manner. All toolkits ensure you are able to confront this problematic issue in a consistently fair way, whether you are working with a bully and young person who is being bullied or workshopping bullying with a class or youth group.
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