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Mental Health Week

Caroline Mathews

How can you support your child's mental health?

 
Children's Mental Health Week is taking place on 7-13 February 2022. This year's theme is Growing Together.
Growing Together is about children and adults growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibility and potential. However, emotional growth is often a gradual process that happens over time, and sometimes we might feel a bit ‘stuck’. It can be compared to the annual rings forming in tree trunks – the size varies with the extent to which the needs of trees can be met each year. 
 
As parents and carers, you play an important role in your child’s mental health. Top tips are provided on the link below.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n9uow064v0ijgr7/CMHW_Growing%20Together_Parents&CarersTips.pdf?dl=0

Why is the growth theme important? The vast majority of staff working in UK schools (95%) have witnessed increased levels of pupil anxiety since the start of the school year, according to new research published by Place2Be and NAHT ahead of Children’s Mental Health Week.
A new poll of educational professionals, released today by Place2Be and NAHT, reveals the impact of the pandemic is still being felt in schools.
1,130 school leaders, teachers and other staff working in primary and secondary schools completed the poll. Those surveyed have seen an increased prevalence of other mental health issues among pupils this school year, including:
• 86% noted an increase in low self-esteem
• 76% said they’d seen an increase in depression
• 68% witnessed an increase in sustained feelings of anger
For staff working in secondary schools, 72% have noticed an increase in self-harm, 61% in suicidal thoughts, and 56% in eating difficulties among pupils.
Unfortunately, only 23% of staff said they had regularly been able to access specialist support for pupils with mental health needs, leaving a majority of children and young people struggling without access to the support they need. Yet early access to support can help ‘nip problems in the bud’. Tapping is a wonderful asset for children and adults to have in their toolkit of strategies to cope with and turn around any negative emotions (such as anger, anxiety, fear) as well as low self-esteem and lack of focus. Children and teenagers can use the simple yet powerful techniques on a daily basis or whenever there is a need in order to create calm, confidence and focus. 
Why not use one of the tapping videos on my website or contact me for a chat how I could support you and anyone in your family.
 



 
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