Main 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

Factors that put children at risk
Factors that make children more resilient
Identifying and supporting children with possible mental health needs
Working in partnership to support identification and meeting needs
Supporting specific groups of learners
What next? Issues for consideration post-identification

Conclusions

references

Index