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This resource explains the difference between counseling and counseling skills, and reviews how mental health issues affect children’s behavior, self-esteem, motivation, and achievement.
Specific Mental Health Problems and Young People: How Schools can Help
Specific Mental Health Problems and Young People: How Schools can Help
This chapter looks at how the:
Many myths and inaccuracies about mental illness affect our behaviour toward young people. These need to be challenged. Young people are affected by the full range of mental health problems, many of which require specialist professional intervention. However, these young people most often attend our schools each day, and there are a variety of ways in which we can support them.
Misconceptions about mental health are widespread and are found even among professionals working with young people in schools and related settings. It is important to be aware of the facts and to separate these from the fiction in order ...
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