With Me In Mind
The team is made up of a wide variety of staff with different professional backgrounds. This includes; Mental Health Nurses, Social workers, Interpersonal Psychotherapists, Cognitive Behaviour Psychotherapists and Educational Mental Health Practitioners.
The team helps to enhance the support already in place from school but, they also provide direct consultations with educational settings if there are concerns relating to the emotional and mental wellbeing of a young person. This may then result in:
- Advice being offered around how the educational setting can support the young person
- Signposting to other services
- For some children/young people, direct therapeutic interventions for those experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties
- Parent-led cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
They may also offer group work, assemblies, corridor workshops, or parental support/education. They also aim to support education staff in embedding the whole school approach to emotional and mental health through positive working relationships, education, training, advice and support.
Supporting children, young people and their families
Where appropriate, they will work in collaboration with Schools Nurses, Educational Psychologists and any other agency that may be supporting children/young people.
They can also help children and young people with more severe needs to access the right support and provide a link to specialist NHS services.
Useful Links
CAHMS - https://camhs.rdash.nhs.uk/
MindEd - https://www.minded.org.uk/
Young Minds - https://www.youngminds.org.uk/
Samaritans - https://www.samaritans.org/
Beat Eating Disorders - https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/