Halting the rise in eating disorders
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
There has been a sharp increase in the number of children...
Mental health
In-depth
8 top tips to support young people with eating disorders
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
If you’re a frontline children’s services professional, you...
The case for daily wellbeing lessons in schools
Nadim Saad talks to CYP Now about the importance of...
Riding the wave of social prescribing
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Social prescribing is increasingly being offered to children...
Interview: Education select committee chair Robin Walker MP
Fiona Simpson speaks to the Conservative MP and education...
Therapeutic Care Special Report
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Fostering and adoption
With a post-pandemic surge in demand for mental health and...
Legal Update: Mental health detention
Lauren Morling and Sihana Bina of Coram International set...
Supporting children’s mental health in school
Charity Place2Be works with schools to develop counselling...
Therapeutic Communities: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care
There has been a recent rise in interest from policymakers...
Game over: the risks of children gambling
- Health | Mental health | Youth Work | Mental Health
Harmful gambling among children and young people is an...
Commissioning of therapies
- Commissioning | Management | Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Some children need therapeutic support that does not fit...
Bereavement support for children with SEND, Denmark
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | PSHE Education | Disabled children and young people | Special Educational Needs | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Sarah Helton visited Denmark in 2018 as part of a study trip...
Children’s Mental Health Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Children’s mental health has long been characterised by long...
Enhanced trauma-informed approach helps practitioners build better relationships with homeless young people
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Homelessness charity in West Midlands uses...
Islington Council trains workforce in trauma-informed practice to improve outcomes for vulnerable children
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
Islington Council has implemented trauma-informed practice...
Trauma-informed Practice: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings | Youth Offending | Leaving Care | Adoption | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
Adverse childhood experiences can have far-reaching negative...
How Covid-19 remade children’s services
- Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Outdoor Learning
A year on from the emergence of the coronavirus and onset of...
How I Got Here: Tish Feilden
The psychotherapist and co-founder of charity Jamie’s Farm...
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report
- Children's Services | Early help | Health | Mental health | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings
Research has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)...
Agencies train ambassadors to spread ACE awareness
- Information sharing | Social Care | Mental health
Scheme aims to increase ACE awareness among South West...
Sefton’s trauma-informed approach helps families to recover from ACEs
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Families/Parenting
Sefton Council rolls out its adverse childhood experiences...
Commissioning for wellbeing
- Mental health | Children's Services | Management | Commissioning | Mental Health
Commissioners should consider how best to meet the mental...
Therapeutic Care: Special Report
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
With rises in children coming into care and reporting mental...
Interview: Kate Collins, chief executive, The Teenage Cancer Trust
- Health | Palliative care | Mental health | Leadership | Interview
The chief executive of The Teenage Cancer Trust speaks to...
Mental Health in Schools: Special Report
- Mental health | Mental Health
As children's mental health needs increase, schools,...
Mental Health in Schools: Policy context
- Mental health
For the past decade, policymakers have focused on using...
Commissioning: Mental health transformation plans
- Mental health | Commissioning | Mental Health
Partnerships are crucial to ensure transformation plans...
Advocate for young minds: Emma Thomas, chief executive, YoungMinds
- Mental health | Interview | Mental Health
Derren Hayes talks to Emma Thomas, chief executive of...
Call to boost school counselling services
- Education | Mental health | Mental Health
Council leaders and professional organisations say mental...
Children's Mental Health: Policy Context
- Mental health
Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study suggest 12 per...
Special Report: Children's Mental Health
- Mental health | Families/Parenting | Leaving care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health
As concerns persist over children and young people's mental...
Plan for closer school-CAMHS ties
Advocates of closer working between schools and mental...
Virtual leads to improve mental health of looked-after children
- Mental health | Social Care | Mental Health
Leaders back calls from an expert working group for the...
Lessons from Serious Case Reviews: Child mental health
- Mental health | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health
Safeguarding in child and adolescent mental health services...
Child X reveals crisis in CAMHS
- Mental health | Mental Health
The Child X case highlights failures across the mental...
Youth mental health champions
- Mental health | Mental Health
Teachers are to be trained how to respond to pupils in...
Commissioning: Children's mental health
- Mental health | Commissioning | Mental Health
Richard Selwyn says commissioning practice must adapt if it...
Tackling offender mental health
- Mental health | Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Youth Offending Teams | Mental Health
A MAC-UK scheme could point the way for supporting young...
Fixing CAMHS funding shortage
- Mental health | Mental Health
Experts say a new approach to CAMHS funding is vital to...
The policy context on Children's Mental Health
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Management | Mental Health
One in 10 five- to 16-year-olds have a diagnosable mental...
The policy context on Attachment and Neglect
- Early Years | Health | Mental health | Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect
In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the...
Review: Making the case for reflective practice
- Home education | Special Educational Needs | Mental health | Residential and specialist care
Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children - A Guide to...
Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness
- Health | Mental health | Youth Work
Nick Luxmoore; Jessica Kingsley Publishers; 9781849051859;...
Good Practice
Arts projects bring young people wellbeing boost
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Youth Work
Post-pandemic initiative aims to improve community health...
Young people's lived experiences shape Scottish suicide prevention strategy
- Youth Work | Participation | Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Young people with lived experiences of mental health...
Thrive improves behaviour and attainment
Primary in Dagenham trains its staff to deliver Thrive...
Training makes teachers ‘trusted adults’
Cornwall's HeadStart Kernow rolled out an intensive training...
Specialist team supports students' emerging mental health needs
Brighter Futures for Children's Mental Health Support Team...
Young people co-produce mental health directory
- Health | Mental health | Youth Work | Participation | Mental Health
Youth ambassadors collaborate with service providers on...
How classroom storytelling sessions target emotions
Creative Classrooms gives children and teachers the...
How football sessions tackle mental health stigma
- Youth Work | Health | Mental health
Group therapy harnesses the power of sport to engage with...
Champions of children’s health and wellbeing
- Health | Early years education | Public Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Courses and training
Training empowers practitioners to lead change in early...
Suicide bereavement support, Denmark
- Health | Mental health | Families/Parenting | Children's Services | Mental Health
Anna Wardley visited Denmark to speak to leading experts and...
Psychologists help youth club support young men affected by offending
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Youth Justice | Youth Offending
Trained psychologists were based at a youth club in Haringey...
Young people get quick mental health support
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Free service offers young people one-to-one and group...
How I Got Here: Wendy Minhinnett, Charlie Waller Trust
- Mental health | Health
Wendy Minhinnett, parent/carer lived experience lead at the...
Benefits of literacy, US and Canada
Teacher Olivia Richards visited programmes in the US and...
How mental health support finds its place in schools
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Charity Place2Be provides schools with clinicians who take a...
How I Got Here: Clare Erasmus
- Education | Mental health | Mental Health
Teacher and director of mental health and wellbeing at...
Peer mentoring scheme prevents problems escalating
- Mental health | Mental Health
More than Mentors trains young mentors in school and...
Social prescribing service boosts mental health of Sheffield young people
- Mental health | Health | Mental Health
Sheffield Futures’ social prescribing model offers early...
Support groups give siblings the time to shine
Brothers and sisters of children with special educational...
Tech solutions help young people overcome anxieties
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
The Children’s Society is using virtual reality with...
Disaster-based trauma support, Australia
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Education | Safeguarding in education | Mental Health
The rugged, remote and inhospitable nature of much of the...
Agency helps children develop more secure attachments
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Mental Health | Adoption
“Outstanding”-rated adoption agency Family Futures provides...
NHS specialists and secure setting staff create therapeutic environment to address complex issues
- Health | Mental health | Youth Justice | Probation, resettlement and rehabilitation | Mental Health | Youth Offending
Secure Stairs has been delivering practical solutions to...
How peer support helps children cope better with grief
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Mental Health
Weekly sessions of peer support give children and families a...
Art therapy helps girls affected by youth violence
- Safeguarding and child protection | Social Care | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Mental Health
A south London-based project is using creative expression as...
How music mentors instil confidence in young people
- Youth Work | Extra-curricular | Health | Mental health | Participation
One-to-one music-making sessions improve the wellbeing of...
Colour theory behind learning
- Education | Mental health
The Kaleidoscope Programme builds pupils' confidence,...
How street therapy lifts young people's spirits
- Mental health | Youth Work
Informal engagement of young people who are often involved...
Speedy access to mental health support
- Mental health | Youth Work
Pause drop-in centre offers young people prompt help and...
Just Health
- Health | Mental health | Youth Justice | Participation | Youth Offending
Consultation gathered young people's views on what needs to...
How group support ends self-harm
- Extra-curricular | Mental health
Activity sessions help to reduce self-harm among young...
How emotional learning helps to stop bullying
- Safeguarding in education | Extra-curricular | Mental health
Anti-bullying initiative reduces bullying in schools by...
42nd Street
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services
Manchester-based charity that runs a wide range of...
Mulberry Bush Oxfordshire (MBOX) Teaching School
- Education | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Social Care | Attachment & Neglect | Residential Children's Care
Works with education settings to adopt a "psychodynamic"...
AdCAMHS, East Sussex
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect
Therapeutic programme that supports adopted children and...
How intervention reduces self-harm
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help
Project helps young people recover from self-harm and...
Ask the Experts: Accessing mental health funding
- Early Years | Health | Mental health | Sexual health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Youth Work
Our panel offers advice on mental health services funding,...
Behind the Inspection Rating: Structure change drives progress
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Service configuration | Ofsted | Social Care
Kingston upon Thames Council - children's services...
Participation in Action: Young people go into the shadows to tackle depression
- Health | Mental health | Youth Work | Participation
A group of young people involved in a research study have...
How children challenge body image issues
- Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Public Health | Mental health | Youth Work | PSHE Education
Project reduces negative body image issues among primary...
How training helps improve mental health support
- Courses and training | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Management | Youth Work
Mental health project improves support for young people in...
Good Practice: Ask the Experts - Explore a fascination for the sky
- Early years education | Mental health | Leadership | Mentoring | Outdoor learning
Our panel offers advice on capitalising on children's love...
Good Practice: How wide range of autism support helps young people and parents
- Mental health
Service ensures children with autism and their parents get...
How whole families receive support for children on the edge of care
- Mental health
West Midlands project supports whole families under-served...
How streamlined diagnosis is slashing ADHD delays in Doncaster
- Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help
Children with ADHD in Doncaster are benefiting from improved...
Skills for the Job: Dealing with self-harm
- Careers | Health | Mental health | Youth Work
Being able to identify the warning signs that a young person...
Good Practice: How a mental health drive has improved pupil behaviour
The Spark Project has had a positive impact on pupil...
Good Practice: How mental health services for looked-after children are being improved in South Yorkshire
- Health | Mental health
A new approach to supporting looked-after children with...
Good Practice: How parent peer mentoring has helped to improve children's mental health in Southwark
- Early Years | Health | Mental health
The Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities scheme has...
Research
Trends in Eating Disorder and Self-harm Incidence Rates Since Covid-19
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Researchers from Keele University, the University of...
Can the physical environment of residential children's homes make them feel more therapeutic? Recommendations from a rapid evidence assessment
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Residential Children's Care
Exploring the factors within the physical environment that...
Creative Life Story Work strengthens care relationships
- Social Care | Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Evaluation of a creative, relational approach to life story...
Using a socio-ecological framework to understand how 8-12-year-olds build and show digital resilience
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Mental health
This study explores how digital resilience operates in...
Impact of Covid-19 on emergency department attendances for young people
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Researchers from the University of Southampton wanted to...
Parenting recovery programme tackles child trauma
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care
Study assesses how children’s home provider uses...
Overshadowed: The Mental Health Needs of Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities | Disabled children and young people
It is estimated that around 1.2 million people in England...
A Review of Recent Evidence into Children and Young People’s Mental Health
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
This document seeks to piece together the evidence about...
Mental Health for All? The Final Report of the Commission for Equality in Mental Health
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
The Commission for Equality in Mental Health was set up in...
Protecting the psychological health of children through effective communication about COVID-19
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Coronavirus
In this brief commentary, Dalton and colleagues set out the...
History of childhood maltreatment is associated with reduced fractional anisotropy of the accumbofrontal ‘reward’ tract in healthy adults
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Several studies have shown that childhood maltreatment is...
Practitioner Review: Twenty years of research with adverse childhood experience scores – Advantages, disadvantages and applications to practice
- Health | Mental health | Social Care | Mental Health | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
In their practitioner review, Lacey and Minnis consider the...
Screen Use, Lifestyle Behaviours and Psychosocial Health in Adolescent Females
- Health | Mental health | Mental Health
Researchers at the University of Leicester wanted to measure...
Client and provider discomfort with an adverse childhood experiences survey
- Mental health | Social Care | Mental Health
The presumed causal relationship between ACEs and poor life...
Agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood victimization: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Health | Mental health | Social Care
Researchers set out to investigate the accuracy of adult...
Adolescent victimization and early-adult psychopathology: Approaching causal inference using a longitudinal twin study to rule out non-causal explanations
- Social Care | Health | Mental health
Researchers from King’s College London used data gathered...
Early life adversity exposure and circulating markers of inflammation in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Mental health | Social Care
The ACEs study was not the first to observe a connection...
ICT-Supported Social Work Interventions with Youth: A Critical Review
- Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Children's Services | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Residential Children's Care | Foster Care | Adoption
This study conducted a systematic review of information and...
Between Love and Behaviour Management: the Psychodynamic Reflective Milieu at the Mulberry Bush School
- Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Health | Mental health | Residential Children's Care
A study on the Mulberry Bush School conveys direct work and...
Child, Caregiver, and Therapist Perspectives on Therapeutic Alliance in Usual Care Child Psychotherapy
- Social Care | Health | Mental health | Families/Parenting | Mental Health | Preventing Care Proceedings
The primary aim of this exploratory study was to examine the...
Evaluation of Right Here: A Young People’s Mental Health Initiative of the Paul Hamlyn and Mental Health Foundations
- Youth Work | Mental Health | Health | Mental health
The increase in young people suffering poor mental health...
Best Friends Forever? Friendship Stability Across School Transition
- Education | Mental health
Researchers explore rates of friendship stability and...
Special Report: Attachment and Neglect - Research Evidence
- Early Years | Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect
Insights into Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Mental health
Researchers examine children's self-reported data on...
Research Report: Educational Psychology WorkforceSurvey 2013
- Education | Disabled children and young people | Mental health | Leadership
Authors: Yen Truong and Hilary Ellam
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