Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Learners 11-18 Years

The mental health of young people in secondary schools is a current concern.

• Do you feel equipped to identify mental health needs in your learners?
• 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 your students, and focuses

on identifying and supporting both specific mental health needs and particular

groups of learners.

Introduction

1. Factors that put young people at risk
2. Identifying and supporting young people with anxiety and depression
3. Identifying and supporting young people with conduct disorders
4. Identifying and supporting young people who self-harm
5. Identifying and supporting specific at-risk groups of young people
6. Supporting the needs of young people who identify as LGBTQ+

7. Identifying and supporting young people who experience bullying

8. Supporting mental health needs through working in partnership

Conclusions

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Index

Jonathan Glazzard is Professor of Teacher Education at Leeds Beckett University. He is the professor attached to the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools. He teaches across a range of QTS and non-QTS programmes and is an experienced teacher educator. Prior to this he was Head of Academic Development at Leeds Trinity University and Head of Primary Initial Teacher Training courses at the University of Huddersfield.

Kate Bancroft

is course leader of the Masters ‘Early Years and Childhood Studies’ degree at Leeds Beckett University and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her background is in secondary school Physical Education teaching. Across her 7-year career as a teacher she was also a pastoral leader, head of department, head of faculty and an assistant headteacher and worked in four different secondary schools across Leeds, Halifax and Bradford. She joined the Carnegie School of Education as a lecturer in September 2017.