L2 Support and Wellbeing in Schools Flashcards
What is mental health?
At one end of the continuum is normal human emotion
At the other is extreme psychological distress and mental illness
The precise threshold where one moves from mental health to ill mental health is not defined
What is well-being?
The quality of people’s lives, it is a dynamic state that is enhanced when people can fulfil their personal and social goals
Objective and subjective
What is Daniels 1999 framework for assessing mental health problems in children and young people?
Framework to consider risk and resilience
Resilience - vulnerability
Adversity - protective
How have emotional disorder rates increased?
More common in 5-25 year olds
2004 -3.9%
2017 - 5.8%
Stability in other disorders (behavioural, hyperactivity) have remained stable since
Are mental disorders more common in older age groups?
Those aged 17-19 were 3 times more likely to have a disorder than preschool children
What are some of the main areas of concern?
50% of mental illnesses start before the age of 14
10-20% of adolescents may experience a mental health problem
Increasing emotional problems in girls
What learning is linked to children’s wellbeing?
School environment
Learning and enjoyment in primary school predict their wellbeing
Boys learning in primary school influence behavioural aspects
Girls in school are predictive of social wellbeing
What factors contribute to mental health?
Societal
Cultural
Environmental
Educational
Psychological - biological - social
Consider them all at once
What are the tiers without mental health support?
Tier 1 - frontline staff
Tier 2 - network of professionals
Tier 3 - specialist outpatient CAMH team
Tier 4 - inpatient CAMH provision
What does the DOH 2014 mental health and wellbeing taskforce aim to do?
Promoting resilience, prevention and early intervention
Improving access to effective support - a system without tiers
Care for the most vulnerable
Accountability and transparency
Developing the workforce
What are the governments 3 pillars of mental health?
- incentivise and support all schools and colleges to identify a designated senior lead
- fund new mental health support teams
- pilot a four-week waiting time for access to specialist NHS children and young people’s
What are the key support issues?
Schools increasingly being looked to for intervention
Need to an improved evidence base for interventions
Emphasis on integrated working and early intervention
Challenges of increased diversity in education marketplace
What is the medical model of mental health?
A useful way of understanding the complexity of the human condition and to develop treatments
What is a critique of the medical model?
Biomedical perspectives remain dominant
Over emphasis on diagnosing and treating individual pathology
What EP work is linked to the medical model?
Diagnostic processes
Supporting others to understand diagnostic processes
Support the implementation of evidence base treatments or interventions for particular conditions
Attempting to bridge the gap in understanding between health, social care and educational settings
Evaluating impact and implementation of evidence-based interventions
What is an EP role in the social model?
Draw attention to the fact that children and young people’s school experiences can impact their mental health
Promote systematic responses to mental health distress and wellbeing
Help address issues of stigma and inclusion
Help young people to understand and cope with their experiences of mental distress
What is the educational model?
Concerned with the development of social and emotional competence
Places emphasis on teaching and learning of emotional awareness and social skills
Draws on concepts such as emotional literacy and social and emotion aspects of learning
What are the key social and emotional skills?
Self awareness
Self regulation
Motivation
Empathy
Social skills
What is the EP role within the educational model?
Training on the social and emotional aspect of learning
Develop whole school approaches
Provide targeted group work to those who are at risk of behavioural problems
What is the psychological model?
Recognises the importance of interaction between the person and the environment
Consider the impact of the individual on the system, and behaviour, cognition, emotion and interpersonal interactions
Typically adopts an eco-systematic approach using a case formulation, hypothesis testing and problem solving
What are the features of an individualist approach?
Pipe end
Pathogenic
Mandatory
Dependency
Inequitable
Additive
Maintains status quo
What are the features of the whole system approach?
Systematic
Salutogenic
Participatory
Sustainable
Equitable
Integrative
What are the limitations of treatment?
Many children do not respond adequately to even the best-evidenced treatments
