Consultation: Children & young people’s emotional wellbeing/mental health
Consultation sessions from Healthy Minds for those working with troubled children and young people
What consultation is:
The provision of advice and guidance by a Healthy Minds Practitioner to any professional, parent/carer or young person, related to the emotional and mental health needs of a child/young person.
What it’s for:
• To help develop individual/collective practice in promoting/improving the emotional well being/mental health of children and young people.
• To ensure that children and young people receive the most appropriate intervention related to their emotional wellbeing/mental health issue, at the most appropriate time and from the most appropriate services/professional(s).
• To harness the resources of community services for children and young people to achieve the above.
How consultation takes place:
• One to one over the telephone or in person
• Through multi-agency/”team around the child” working
• Through team meetings.
• Through joint appointments.
Values:
• Building collaborative partnership working
• Building trusting flexible relationships
• Building shared expectations of outcomes
Which services would benefit from consultation?
Health: e.g. GPs, Health Visitors, School Nurses, Speech and Language Therapists, Paediatricians
Children & Education: e.g. School Heads/Deputies, SENCOs, School Counsellors, Education Welfare Officers, Social Workers, Behaviour Support/Link Workers, Extended Schools Coordinators, Connexions, Youth Offending
Voluntary Sector: e.g. Family Mediation, Relate/Talk Zone, SPLITZ, Parenting Support Service
How to contact the Healthy Minds Teams:
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