Brighter Futures for Children's Mental Health Support Team (MHST) helps students across Reading to manage emerging, mild or moderate mental health difficulties, using age-appropriate interventions.
The team works primarily with children experiencing worries, anxiety and low mood, with Alec de Sausmarez, senior educational psychologist from the MHST, saying that most of the team's referrals are for children experiencing anxiety.
The MHST – funded by the NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board – is focused on supporting children so that mild problems do not develop into something more serious.
The service works in tandem with existing mental health support services and professionals in schools, such as school-based counsellors, educational psychologists, school nurses, primary mental health workers and pastoral care teams.
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