Lecture 2 Supporting Wellbeing in Schools

Question 1

What is wellbeing?

Answer 1

understood as the quality of people’s lives. It is a dynamic state that is enhanced when people can fulfil their personal and social goals.

Question 2

How should schools look at mental health?

Answer 2

Schools and colleges should have clear processes to support children and young people, including how they will manage the effect of any disruptive behaviour so it does not adversely affect other pupils.(Department for Education, SEND Code of Practice, 2015

Question 3

When is mental health a problem?

Answer 3

• Severity
• Complexity
• Persistence
  
  • Its impact on development, learning and life

Question 4

How many people in the UK report high life satisfaction? (16-24 yo)

Answer 4

around 8 out of 10 young people aged 16 to 24 reported high or very high life satisfaction.

Question 5

How many young people report symptoms of anxiety or depression?

Answer 5

1 in 5 young people aged 16 to 24 in the UK reported some symptoms of anxiety or depression in 2011-12.

Question 6

What did the Tellus4 Survey find?

Answer 6

a clear decline in measures of emotional health and wellbeing, largely due to a fall in the number of children who felt they could talk to an adult other than their parent if they were worried about something.

Question 7

Where is the Uk in list of countries for wellbeing?

Answer 7

21/28

Question 8

Are young people more troubled than previous generations?

Answer 8

Data indicated increased demandfor specialist mental health inteventions over the past decade and increased levels of low wellbeing (but couldnt establish the trends before now)

Question 9

Has the prevelance in mental disorder in 5-15 year olds increased?

Answer 9

Data shows a slight increase from 9.7% in 1999 to 11.2% in 2017

Question 10

What is the prevelance of emotional disorders?

Answer 10

Emotional disorders have become more common in 5-15 year olds
4.3% in 1999 to 5.8% in 2017

Question 11

How have other types of disorders changed over time?

Answer 11

Less common disorders have stayed stable over time

Question 12

How do disorders vary with age?

Answer 12

young people aged 17 to 19 are three times more likely to have a disorder than preschool children aged 2-4

Question 13

When do most mental health illnesses begin?

Answer 13

50% are before the age of 14

Question 14

How many adolescents experience a mental health problem in any given year?

Answer 14

10-20%

Question 15

Where are school children happier with their school experience (rather than england)?

Answer 15

Children in England found to be more unhappy with their school experience than children in 11 other countries including Ethiopia and Algeria, but better than children in Germany, South Korea and Estonia.

Question 16

How many 10-12 year olds in england have been physically bullied in the last month?

Answer 16

38%

Question 17

How many children have not accessed a service 20 months later?

Answer 17

46%

Question 18

What are the governments three pillars?

Answer 18

To support all schools to train a Senior Lead for Mental Health.

Fund new Mental Health Support Teams

To pilot a four-week waiting time for access to specialist NHS children and young people’s mental health services.

Question 19

What is the medical model of mental health?

Answer 19

A useful way of understanding the complexity of the human condition and to develop treatments suited to particular conditions.

Question 20

Whst is a critique of the medical model?

Answer 20

a concern with the overall complexity of a situation can become lost in an over-emphasis on diagnosing and treating individual ‘pathology.’

Question 21

How can The medical model work with EP?

Answer 21

• Diagnostic processes ( e.g. ADHD, ASC pathways).
• Supporting others to understand diagnostic processes and the impact of labelling
• Support the implementation of evidence-base treatments or interventions for particular conditions ( (e.g. Behavioural for ADHC).
• Attempting to bridge the gap in understanding between health, social care and educational settings.
• Evaluating impact and implementation of evidence-based/informed interventions in educational settings

Question 22

What is the social model of mental health?

Answer 22

Studies of attitudes to mental health reveal that younger people have very negative views and use pejorative terms in their everyday language. This and STIGMA

Question 23

How can schools tackle stigma?

Answer 23

Whole school approach which build understanding about mental health, tackle stigma and develop emotional resilience

Successful evidence-based models that increase access to mental health support and services see for example, the TAMHS

Question 24

How can an EP help within the social model?

Answer 24

• Draw attention to the fact that children and young people’s school experiences can impact their mental health, distress and wellbeing
• Promote systemic responses to mental health, distress and wellbeing
• Help address issues of stigma and inclusion
• Help young people to understand and cope with their experiences

Question 25

What is the psychological model?

Answer 25

Recognises
considers
typically adopts (an ecosystemic approach)

Question 26

How does the Ep use the ecosystemic theory?

Answer 26

• Draws on the principles of ecology and systems theory (Osborne and Dowling, 1994)
• Attempt to understand the interactions within and between:
• Micro-system
  
  • Exo-system
  • Macro-system
  • Meso-system