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To mark World Mental Health Awareness Day, this diary entry describes the worries, distractions, irrational ideas, thoughts, rituals and urges of a number of students with whom teachers come into contact. Over 2% of students will have this anxiety related disorder and condition known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Children are distressed by or limited in everyday functioning by obsessions and compulsions. For example, they might wish to continually wash their hands. Diary Entry: Tonight before going to bed, I had to keep going to the bathroom to wash my hands. The reason for this was because this afternoon I tried on...

I hope that the term has gone well. As we near the end  of the Academic Year we have some exciting news, we have launched a brand new website via the Shopify platform. It contains a number of new features including open access to a range of free resources. A variety of new methods of payment have also been made available. The second piece of exciting news is that a new book is in the final stages of preparation and will be published at the beginning of the new Academic Year. The book title is: Behaviour Solutions: A Guide to...

Happy New Year and I hope that 2017 is going well for you. In this newsletter I will look at a number of areas relating to behaviour that have appeared in the news recently.  Hands-on fathers An Oxford University study has found that fathers who embrace parenthood, who were emotionally committed & felt confident about parenthood in the first few months have better behaved children 11 years later. The amount of time they spent with their child was not a significant factor. Soaring numbers of children seek help from Childline NSPCC report that soaring numbers of boys & girls, some...

CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES CONTINUE TO DOMINATE THE HEADLINES Nearly a quarter of a million children (235189) aged 0-18 are getting specialist care from NHS mental services for depression, anxiety and eating disorders. In June this year the following numbers of children were in contact with mental health services: 0-5 years of age and under: 11849 6-10 years of age: 53659 11-15 years of age: just over 100000 16-18 years of age: 69505 Unusually more boys (130395) than girls (104522) were receiving help. It is suggested that these figures are an underestimate of the scale of suffering involving trauma, distress...

Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter. We hope that you have had a good Easter break and that you are ready for the rigours of a busy Summer Term. This month we once again feature the serious issue of mental health. MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES A report from the think tank CentreForum shows that mental healthcare providers refuse to treat an average of 23% of under-18’s referred to them by GP’s, teachers and concerned parents. The report also highlighted the waiting times for users of child and adolescence mental health services had doubled over the past 2 years with...