1 - Trusted Adults are.....

2 - Trusted Adults.....

3 - Kindness is.....

4 - The best way to deal with a problem is.....

5 - Empathy is......

Early interventions – Addressing mental wellbeing concerns

﻿Hi there everybody. My name is Miss Shaw. Really pleased that you're back joining me again today to look at this final lesson in this unit. So this lesson, we are looking at early interventions and addressing some of our mental wellbeing concerns. We'll focus on identifying who our trusted adults are and understanding the role of services such as our GP and CAMHS and the school nurse in relation to supporting our mental health concerns. As we've said before, this lesson covers issues about mental health, so if this is a sensitive topic for you we recommend that you check with your trusted adults before starting the lesson, or making sure that you do the lesson with a trusted adult nearby. So for this lesson, you are going to need an exercise book or some paper, and a pen to jot down your thoughts, and also your brain. Because, again, we will be doing a lot of thinking. So hopefully you've already completed your introduction quiz. Next we'll be looking at identifying who our trusted adults are. We'll then be looking at understanding the roles of healthcare professionals and the services that they provide. And we'll focus on how we can access the support. Then we'll look at our key learning points and you'll complete the final exit quiz for this unit. So last lesson, we focused on how our words and our behaviours impact on other people. What I would like you to do is just to cast your mind back and think about the words that we covered. Now, two of the key words that I've put on the screen here were covered in last lesson. I'd like you to take a minute just to read through them and choose which ones you think are the correct ones. Were you right? I'm hoping that you remembered that we looked at kindness, which was a caring behaviour towards others without expecting any sorts of praise or reward, and empathy, which was the ability to share or to understand the feelings of other people. Now, the other two that were on the screen were interventions and support networks and we're going to be looking at them in more detail in this lesson. So the keywords we're going to focus on is that support refers to the places and people where you can access help, if and when you need it, that trusted adults are the people who you know you can turn to for advice or support, again, if you need it. And then interventions are the actions that are taken by these people that you turn to for support if you need it. So just a quick recap, what is mental health? Can you remember? I'm hoping that you remember it's about our emotions, our moods, and thoughts and feelings, and that looking after our mental health is just as important as looking after our physical health. But what happens if our coping strategies and the way that we deal with our emotions and feelings start to get out of control and we feel that the resilience that we've built up isn't enough? Well, there are many sources of help and support available to you. And what I would like you to do now is just to pause the video to think of any services or trusted adults that you could access support from, if you need it, and make a list, and I'd then like you to come back to the rest of the video when you've finished. So how did your list compare with mine? Well, some of the ones I identified were, within school, all the teachers and the school staff have a duty of care in the absence of your parents or carers to make sure that you are supported and looked after as well as possible. So you can turn to any of those people that work in your school. You might also have a school nurse who comes in. You can book an appointment, usually, with your school nurse to talk to them about anything that is worrying you or any problems that you might have within yourself or any concerns you might have with any of your friends. There's also your GP. So doctors are trained to be able to look at the signs of any issues that you might have, and then work out whether there is a need for any specific intervention. You could also go to the police. There are many ways in which the police support the community and work with other healthcare professionals. There are websites and apps that you can download that you can spend some time on your own looking at and doing a bit more research into coping strategies or ways that you think might help you. You could turn to family members for support. And also we have the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, which we refer to as CAMHS for short who are there to support you with more specific issues. Now, we're going to take a look at these in a bit more detail over the next few slides. So we said the school nurse. Usually you'll have a school health drop in, and you can see your nurse about a range of different health issues, not just about mental health. And there are many emotional health interventions that you could talk to your school nurse about, especially if you're experienced a range of emotional health and wellbeing issues. There are also many external services. So like we've said, online support. There are many websites and online apps where you can use live chats to speak to trained counsellors, to access support and guidance and advice. Or you could talk to people of your own age about the experiences that they've had and how they responded to the issues. You can talk about any problem, no matter how big or small it is. Like we said, there's also the police. Now, they work together regularly on issues of safeguarding, for example, and they try to ensure that every person is safe and supported out in the community. If you do decide that you need to access support from your GP, they will assess your circumstances and offer you appropriate advice or treatment. And they can also refer you to any specialist mental health services for further advice or treatment if its necessary. Like we've said, as well, there's also CAMHS, which is the name for the NHS service that assess and treat young people with any sort of emotional or behavioural or mental health difficulties that they might have. Now, CAMHS support covers depression, maybe problems with food or self-harm or abuse. Perhaps you have an issue like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia and anxiety, or maybe you have stress or anger or violence. And you need support with that. CAMHS is the service that is there to be able to provide that support. So why do we think that getting support and early intervention is so important? I'd like you to pause the video to complete your task and resume it once you finished. So have a think. Why is getting early intervention so important? So how did your list compare with mine? Well it might surprise you to know that research suggests that three students in every class in school will suffer with a mental health problem, but unfortunately, of these young people, three in every four don't feel that they can turn to anyone for help or support and they're afraid of what people might think of them. So we need to make sure that we get you or your friends the help and support that you need, because the longer the problem goes on for, the more damaging it is likely be. Ignoring the issues might cause long lasting problems which we really don't want to happen. So the key learning from this lesson is that identifying your trusted adults is really useful. There are many different sources of support that are available to you, both in school, at home, and externally, but that early intervention is really key to overcoming any major issues. Talking to your trusted adults can really, really help. Now what I'd like you to do now is to complete the exit quiz to check your understanding of the content of this lesson. And what I've done slightly differently this time is to add in key learning points for the whole overall unit. Well done on completing this, the final lesson in this unit. I've really enjoyed working with you and I very much look forward to working with you again in the future. Bye bye for now.

This quiz will recap all the keywords we've covered in this unit. Can you remember what they all meant?

1 - Endorphins are......

2 - Anxiety is caused when.....

3 - Insomnia is....

4 - Our 'frame of reference' is....

5 - Positivity is....

6 - Kindness means......

7 - The 'fight, fight or freeze response' is.....

8 - Empathy...

9 - Support Networks....

10 - Interventions are....

Contains subject matter which individuals may find upsetting.

This lesson will focus on identifying a trusted adult and understanding the role of GP/School nurse/CAMHS in relation to supporting mental health. 

Lesson overview:Early interventions - addressing mental wellbeing concerns

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Mental wellbeing: Recognising concerns: