North Glasgow Youth Stress Centre has been providing emotional support to secondary schoolchildren in the city for the past seven years, but now wants to start work in primary schools.
Margaret Meager, project manager at the centre, said the plan was a reaction to increasing evidence that earlier interventions are more effective.
"When we started the evidence suggested work was best done in secondary schools," she said. "But the evidence is starting to show the importance of working with children earlier, because difficulties are starting to show up earlier." As with the centre's secondary school project, the primary school initiative would see counsellors and therapists working with children to improve their confidence, emotional resilience and wellbeing.
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