Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools
The Department for Education (DfE) developed this advice and practical tools to help schools promote positive mental health in their pupils and identify and address those with less severe problems at an early stage and build their resilience. This advice will also help schools identify and support pupils with more severe needs and help them make appropriate referrals to specialist agencies such as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) were necessary.
Telephone 0800 1111
Childline is a counselling service for parents, children and young people. It also offers multilingual services to South Asian communities in the UK. Languages include Bengali/Sylheti, Gujurati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English. Help and advice is free and confidential.
email:enquiries@stem4.org.uk
STEM4 aims to improve teenage mental health by stemming commonly occurring mental health issues at an early stage.
We are an independent charity and What Works Centre, which champions and supports the use of effective early intervention for children with signals of risk
The aim of the Department of Health (DH is to improve the health of people in England. This site provides health and social care policy and guidance publication and statistics.
Telephone: 0300 123 3393 (Weekdays 9:00-17:00)
Text: 86463
Email: info@mind.org
National mental health charity, which offers an excellent range of materials on all aspects of mental health. It also lists details of local Mind Associations.
Telephone: 0300 5000 927 (Weekdays 9:30-16:00)
Email: info@rethink.org/ advice@rethink.org
Address: Rethink Mental Illness, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP
Rethink, is a national mental health membership charity. It works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life. Its aim is to make a practical and positive difference by providing hope and empowerment through effective services, information and support. Rethink carries out research which information and support. Rethink carries out research, which informs national mental health policy and actively campaigns for change through greater awareness and understanding.
Telephone: 116 123 (any time)
Email: jo@samaritans.org
Address: Chris, PO Box 9090, Stirling, FK8 2SA
If you are deaf or hard of hearing use the single national minicorn number 08457 90 91 92
Samaritans is a confidential emotional support service for anyone in the UK and Ireland. The service is available 24 hours a day for people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide. Volunteers offer support by responding to phone calls, emails and letters. alternatively people can drop into a branch and have a face to face meeting.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists' website includes readable and well-researched information about mental health for the public with information for parents, teachers and young people.
Time to Change is an anti-stigma campaign run by the leading mental health charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness. Time to Change is England's biggest programme to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination.
Telephone: 0207 922 7715
A charity and membership forum, creating a focus for everyone working in the field of young people's health across the UK, to promote and support the health and wellbeing of young people by encouraging and facilitating more effective communication between practitioners working to raise the profile and understanding of young people's health needs, improving access to information, resources, innovation and best practise and promoting evidence-based practise by making research findings more accessible and supporting new studies into young people's health.
UK charity Dedicated to finding and addressing the sources of mental health issues.
MindEd is a free educational resource on children and young people's mental health for all adults. MindEd for Families has online advice and information from trusted sources and will help you to understand and identify early issues and best support your child. Also includes e-learning resources for professionals and volunteers.
The NHS Choices Website which has useful webpages containing the information about all aspects of health. You can call 111 when you need medical help fast but it isn't a 999 emergency. NHS 111 is a fast and easy way to get the right help, whatever the time. NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Calls are free from landlines and mobile phones.
Cover's Black women's health issues. Dedicated to overcoming cultural, language and other barriers faced by Black women in the UK, the organisation works its hardest to make sure Black women receive the support they need. English as a second language and Black youth groups are also run by this organisation.
Telephone: 0300 330 0630
A National service for members of the LGBTQIA+ community regarding sexuality, gender identities, questioning, safety and more. Information, advice, a listening ear and referral are all available. Free and confidential, the entire team also identify as LGBTQIA+
Freephone: 0808 808 2008
Offers support to young Muslims in distress. They provide email support, helplines and online internet counselling. Available all year round including bank holidays and Eid the service pride themselves on being both culturally sensitive and supportive.
Helpful Resources: Depression Organisations
Telephone: 0300 123 3393 (Weekdays 9:00-17:00)
Text: 86463
Email: info@mind.org
National mental health charity, which offers an excellent range of materials on all aspects of mental health. It also lists details of local Mind Associations.
Telephone: 0808 802 5544 (Weekdays 9:30-16:00)
Young Minds is the UK's leading charity committed to improving emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people and empowering their parents and carers.
Telephone 0800 1111
Childline is a counselling service for parents, children and young people. It also offers multilingual services to South Asian communities in the UK. Languages include Bengali/Sylheti, Gujurati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English. Help and advice is free and confidential.
Telephone: 0800 1111
The Mix is the UK's leading support service for young people. We are here to help you take on any challenge you are facing from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs. Talk to us via online, social or our free, confidential helpline.
www.studentsagainstdepression.org
Students Against Depression offers information and resources validated by health professionals alongside tips and advice from students who have experienced it all themselves.
A website with video interviews of young people's real life experiences of mental health and lifestyle. There is a section on young people talking about their experiences of depression and eating disorders.
Useful Publications:
Michael Rosen's SAD Book
Words by Michael Rosen, pictures by Quentin Blake, Walker Books (ISBN-10: 0744598982)
A touching book about what it's like to feel deeply sad.
Mind publications
Comic style booklet on loss.
2019 NICE clinical guidelines
Helpful Resources: Anxiety Organisations
Telephone: 08444 775 774 (Weekdays: 9:30-17:30)
Text Service 07537 416 905
Helps all those suffering with anxiety disorders. Self Help leaflets and contact lists are available alongside self-help groups, counselling, phone self-help groups and email support. There is a section for young people struggling with anxiety.
Telephone: 08444 775 774 (Weekdays 9:30-17:30)
Text Service 07537 416 905
No Panic is a registered charity, which helps people who suffer from Panic Attacks, Phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and other related anxiety disorders including those people who are trying to give up Tranquilizers.
Telephone: 0845 390 6232
Email: support@ocdaction.org.uk
Information and support for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCDs) and related disorders including Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), Skin Picking (CSP), Trichotillomania (TTM) compulsive hair pulling.
Information and support relating to OCDs in children and young people. Produces useful friendly guides including a teen's guide, children's guide and parent's guide.
Young People's Guide
Parents Guide
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) help site.
Touch and Go Joe:
An Adolescent's Experience of OCD
By Joe Wells, Jessica Kingsley, Publishers (ISBN-10: 1843103915)
This book tells the story of young Joe Wells who faced OCD during his teenage years, a book we would recommend to anyone wanting an easy to understand experience of coping with Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
NICE clinical Guidelines:
Common mental health disorders (CG123) 2011 Anxiety (CG113) 2011
Post Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (NG116) 2005
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) (CG31) 2005
Finding a Therapist
Counsellors and psychotherapists are listed in the Yellow Pages. The following organisations have national lists of therapists:
Find a psychologist near you.
Telephone: 0116 254 9568
Email: babcp@babcp.com
Email: bacp@bacp.co.uk
Telephone: 01455 83300
Tweet @BACP
Text: 01455 560606
Useful Apps: Depression and Anxiety
Developed by Solent NHS Brookvale CAMHS service this app helps children struggling with depression and anxiety track their emotions and pinpoint times where they feel the most stressed or anxious in between CAMHS appointments. It may be useful for children to share their BASE activity with their healthcare professional
This website offers free cognitive behavioural based self-help and therapy resources, including worksheets and self-help mp3s.
MindShift is designed to help teens and young people cope with anxiety by teaching them how to relax, develop more helpful ways of thinking and identify active steps to help take charge of anxiety.
Approved by NHS Choices and listed as one of Healthline's Best Apps for Depression 2017, this app uses CBT principles to help people with depression and anxiety manage and tack their moods. It has a "thought checker" to identify negative thoughts and an "activities" tool to suggest wellbeing activities.
This app provides six evidence-based tools to aid clinical depression and negative moods. It contains info, self-tests, videos, a thought diary, activities and a suicide safety planning feature to help keep the person safe when they are feeling distressed.
Aimed at 8-12 year-olds, this app helps children understand their feelings and challenge negative thinking. Four positive penguins take children on a journey to help them better undrstand the relationships between what they think and how they feel.
This is a self-help app for anxiety, which includes a personal toolbox, negative thought buster, colouring exercise and information. Developed by researchers at University of West England and winner of Best Anxiety App 2016 in the Healthline awards.
This is a self-help app for people experiencing panic attacks. It can provide immediate audio assistance during a panic attack and help prevent panic attacks. As it is targeted to specifically help panic attacks, it may not be suitable for all other forms of anxiety.
This evidence-based app has been developed to help people with social anxiety gain confidence in social situations. Using the principles of CBT, ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) and MBSR (Mindfulness Stress Reduction), it aims to help people under anxiety, control it and then challenge it using real-life guided practise exercises. The Essential Trial (4 programs) is free, the user pay to personalise their app experience according to their needs.
Helpful Resources Psychosis Organisations:
Psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people (CG155) 2013 NICE clinical guideline
Psychosis with coexisting substance misuse (CG120) 2011 NICE clinical guidelines.
Bipolar disorder (BPD) (CG185) 2014 NICE clinical guidelines
Telephone: 0300 5000 927
Email: info@rethink.org advice@rethink.org
Address: Rethink Mental Illness, 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP
Rethink, is a national mental health membership charity. It works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life. Its aim is to make a practical and positive difference by providing hope and empowerment through effective services, information and support. Rethink carries out research, which informs national mental health policy and actively campaigns for change through greater awareness and understanding.
Initiative to Reduce the Impact of Schizophrenia (IRIS) campaigning for the best practise in early psychosis.
Telephone: 0300 304 7000 (16:30-22:30)
A national out-of-hours helpline, which provides support and information to anyone coping with mental illness. SANE is one of the UK's leading charities concerned with improving the lives of everyone affected by mental illness.
Telephone: 0114 271 8210
Email: nhvn@hotmail.co.uk
Hearing Voices Network consists of 130 self-help groups in England and Scotland. These groups help voice-hearers through discussion of voice-hearing. HVN is also there to help carers and to support and advise voice-hearers.
Telephone: 0333 323 3880 (Weekdays 9:00-17:00)
Email: info@bipolaruk.org.uk
A user-led charity working to enable people affected by bipolar disorder (manic depression) to take control of their lives. The organisation provides support and advice for people living with manic depression, their families and carers.
Telephone: 0808 802 5544 (Weekdays 9:30-16:00)
Parent Email: parents@youngminds.org.uk
General enquiries: ymenquiries@youngminds.org.uk
YoungMinds is the UK's leading charity committed to improving emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people and empowering their parents and carers.
Telephone: 020 7911 0822 (Weekdays 9:00-17:00)
Email: info@voicecollective.co.uk
Peer Support for Young People Who Hear, See and Sense Things that Others Don't.
Hosted by Mind in Camden's Hearing Voices Project. This website contains information about voices, visions, coping and recovery, getting help in a crisis and peer support groups for young people aged 12 to 18. The website is useful for carers as well as young people who are having these experiences.
Useful Apps: Psychosis
An App to help users track their moods, medication, sleep and other common symptoms related to bipolar disorder.
One to watch; an app by the University of Manchester, which aims to deliver CBT-informed strategies via mobile to people experiencing episodes of psychosis.
Helpful Resources: Eating disorder organisations.
Telephone: 03000 11 12 13
ABC has 23 years of experience as a UK national eating disorder organisation. ABC provides advice and support to anyone affected by anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and all kinds of eating distress.
We support sufferers and their family and friends towards full recovery.
Email: jenny@boyanorexia.com
An informative website about anorexia in boys and in association with the book "Boys get Anorexia Too" by Jennifer Langley.
a website about a project aiming to improve support available to students and young people with eating disorders by setting up a network of student run self-help groups. The website contains information about existing self-help groups, and information about how to get involved.
Guidance
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Guidelines on treating eating disorders: information for the public. This booklet tells you what treatment you can expect from the NHS
Youth email: fyp@b-eat.co.uk
Youthline: 0808 801 0711
Adult email: help@b-eat.co.uk
Adult Helpline: 0808 801 0677
This website provides information on all aspects of eating disorders, including, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorders, and other related eating disorders.
Useful Publications:
The Parents Guide to Eating Disorders What Parents Need to Know.
by Jane Smith (2011, Lion Hudson)
Useful Apps: Eating Disorders
Go-to app for eating disorder recovery for all eating disorders Includes; meal loging, meal planning, coping skills, rewards for recovery wins, social and secure, can be used in conjunction with treatment teams. Great reviews
Eating disorder recovery tool including meal logging, behaviour tracking, emotions and thought tracking. Also has information and activities around body image, mindfulness and relationships. Can be used in conjunction with treatment teams. Featured in Forbes magazine feature "Technologies innovating mental health in 2016' Extended features (podcast, etc.) on website.
