1. Parent Session Welcome
Youth Mental Health
Parent Session
Welcome

2. What is Mental Health?
Mental health is part of your overall health, it’s about:
How you think, behave and feel
How you cope with life's ups and downs
How you feel about yourself and your life
How you see yourself and your future
How stress affects you
How you feel about negative things happening in your life

3. Size and Scale of the Issue
One in ten young people in Scotland experience mental health issues
Conditions include depression/low mood, anxiety, eating disorders.
Young people can be scared to talk about their feelings for fear that they will be called names or isolated or that they will upset their parents or family members
Unreported or untreated mental health issues can lead to poor school attendance, under achievement and problematic family, peer relationships and risky behaviours.

4. Bellshill Academy Trends
In Bellshill Academy we have noticed more young people report feeling low/ anxious just before a holiday period:
Summer
Christmas
Easter
Interventions in assemblies, PSE, signposting to summer/ Easter activities, mentoring etc

5. Young People and Triggers
Loss/separation
ASD
LGBT
Feeling Low
Don’t know
Domestic Violence
Relationships

6. How schools identify Young People
Ethos/environment / relationships
Pupil Support team
Information to young people
Assemblies / Curriculum
Group work
Individual pupil support
Home visits
Peer Support
Self referral

7. Referral agencies for SchoolsGP
CALMHS- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Social Work – Early Intervention Team
School Nurse
LIAM Low intensity Anxiety Management
Individual pupil support
Young Carers
Includem
YMCA
HART Meeting – Multiagency Meeting
GIRFME Planning

8. How can Parents help? Thoughts What are we thinking? Feelings
How are we feeling
Behaviour
What are we doing

9. Which thought would make the dog feel most worried?
Everyone will laugh if they see me looking like this
I look really cool in these sun glasses
Which thought would make the dog feel most worried?

10. Mr. Evans the head teacher walked into Amy and Luke’s class and asked
to see them before they went home at the end of the day.
GOOD, I bet he wants to ask if I can help him with something
Oh NO. He wants to tell me off for throwing my litter in the playground
Amy and Luke had very different thoughts.
How would Amy’s thoughts make her feel?
How would Luke’s thoughts made him feel?

11. The avoidance trap
anxiety
Anxiety
Time

12. The avoidance trap anxiety Anxiety Avoiding or stopping
maintains the threat
Anxiety
Time

13. Understand the avoidance trap
Key messages
You will be anxious when you do things
Anxiety will reduce over time
Don’t let anxiety stop you from doing things
Anxiety can be a normal part of building new skills and confidence.

14. Youth Mental Health Parental Sessions
Monday
12th Nov – Youth Mental Health / Signposting
19th Nov – Self-Harm Talk
26th Nov – Suicide Talk