national curriculum – A New Vision for Mental Health

5 reasons why recognising your emotions is important

Author: Editorial 14th October 2019 0 Comments

Via BBC Teach , child mental health expert, Shahana Knight, shares her insight into why it’s important for both children and adults to understand and recognise their emotions. She begins by saying: “Recognising your emotions and learning to manage them is one…
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Bad Education

Author: Editorial 29th August 2018 2 Comments

Half of mental illness in adult life starts before the age of 15 … and three-quarters by age 18. [i] Meanwhile, the children and young people of today face heightened pressures and stresses … witness a big uptick in the numbers…
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children and adolescents, Education, interpersonal and intrapersonal understandings and skills, national curriculum, Opinion, primary schools, Richard Oldfield, schoolchildren, schools

Towards a more rounded curriculum

Author: Editorial 16th March 2018 0 Comments

Writing in The Psychologist (Feb. 8th 2018), Esther Ford, a trainee Educational Psychotherapist, questions what is missing from the education system: might aspects of psychoanalytic thought be part of the answer? She says: “Like many, I am increasingly frustrated with our education…
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