Thrive @ Matravers (continued) What to do if.... I am concerned about a child’s mental health?
The growing concern about young peoples’ mental health has been on the news many times in recent months. Mental health issues are more common than you might think. Recognising them and dealing with them is the best way to help an individual thrive. Ensuring that our young people become healthy in mind as well as physically healthy is really important. We recognise that there are some students of ours who are struggling with mental health issues themselves or have family members with mental health concerns.
Further advice:
https://www.net-aware.
org.uk/
or search for: Be Share Aware. Run by the NSPCC
What do we mean by mental health? Mental health can include: eating disorders, depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, extreme stress or anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder. Things can start with minor concerns and may get worse, or they may be triggered by a one-off significant event.
What to do? If you are ever worried about your child’s mental health, the number here is a helpline parents can call. We would also strongly recommend you talk to your GP, who will work with us to give you further advice and support.
KEEP SAFE
Keeping children safe online is a very real responsibility…that starts with you at home.
The first step is to increase our awareness of the dangers so that we can take the action needed to keep our young people safe. We have programs in school to increase students’ awareness of the dangers, but we need your help. Two of the biggest areas of concern that we wanted to make sure you were aware of are:
Stranger Danger websites such as ’Omegele’ offer the facility for people to have conversations with strangers via live web cam. Although the website itself contains a warning, young people are still accessing and using the site. We warn our young people about strangers from a young age. The dangers of strangers on-line is no different.
‘I can never get that picture back’ despite what it suggest, Snap Chat does not only exist for 10 seconds. There have been several high profile news stories where young people have sent inappropriate pictures. It is a criminal act to send images of this kind.
It is also very damaging to a young person emotionally when these situations go wrong.
The best possible way to address these issues is to talk about them with our young people which will help ncrease their awareness of the risk.
Tip: Get in contact with your internet service provider and they can help you set security settings for your internet, including limiting access to specific websites.
See our ‘Thrive@Matravers website for more information. (Including the age restrictions on popular website.)
further advice
www.thinkuknow.co.uk
www.matravers.wilts.sch.uk
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