The MHST's Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) offer workshops and targeted focused evidence-based support to young people who are experiencing mild to moderate difficulties with their emotional well-being that might best be managed within a school setting. These interventions are delivered:

• individually
• as groups of young people
• to their parents/carers alone or with their children. 

Examples of mild mental health difficulties that the team can support with:

• Initial presentation of challenging behaviour
• New emerging; mild anxiety/low mood symptoms
• Normal response to grief
• Friendship difficulties/exam stress

Examples of moderate mental health difficulties that the team can support with: 

• Low mood or anxiety symptoms
• Panic attacks
• Social difficulties / Relationship difficulties

Specialist CAMHS Practitioners provide supervision to EMHPs and offer specialist mental health interventions in schools.

The following individual or group parent interventions are provided in primary schools and can be offered in person, online or over the phone:

• Guided self-help Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for child anxiety
• Guided self-help for child behaviours that challenge
• Individual or group interventions for young people

The following interventions for young people are provided face to face in secondary schools:

• Guided self-help Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for anxiety
• Guided self-help Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for low mood

What is guided self-help? 

This is where you work through a self-help workbook or computer course with the support of a therapist. The main aim of Guided Self Help is to support you in learning how to make positive changes, to your behaviour and to how you interact with your thoughts, in a way that helps you feel better.

What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT? 

CBT is an evidence-based effective treatment for helping people tackle problems such as anxiety and or depression. The key idea behind CBT is that what you THINK and DO affects the way you FEEL emotionally and physically and vice versa. 

CBT can help you to change how you interact with your thoughts (‘cognitive’) and how you react in different situations (‘behaviour’) to alleviate unpleasant symptoms.

Silvercloud 

The Silvercloud computerised CBT programme offers focussed modules which can be completed online. These programmes are for parents or caregivers who are supporting an anxious child or teenager. Parents can sign up themselves by using the Self Sign Up Link Pathway

Young people can get access to this programme through their school's Designated Mental Health Lead. You can speak with the school SENCO if you are not sure who this is. 

Find out what’s in the Silvercloud programme for Primary Schools here and Secondary Schools here. 

For Young People

We offer Transition Groups and workshops in primary and secondary schools. These support young people making the transition from primary to secondary school. The groups and workshops create spaces for young people with SEND to raise and explore worries or concerns about this significant change. 

For parents and caregivers 

We offer parent workshops to support with the transition from primary to secondary school, including specific sessions for parents of autistic children for whom the change of routine may be more anxiety provoking. 

How can I find out when the parent workshops are available? 

The MHST are in regular contact with schools and parents via a newsletter. Schools are informed about workshops and will circulate this information to parents whose children are at this stage of their education.

Parents can also check the MHST Eventbrite page here for upcoming workshops.