Did you know what happens in your teenage brain when you sit an exam?

Watch this video of Dr Rebecca Johnson, Clinical Psychologist University Hospitals Birmingham and @solihullaproach explain how your teenage brain develops and the impact this can have on your feelings.

#GCSE #Alevels #teenagebrain

We support the urgent call for the First Minister of Wales to prioritise children’s health.

As part of RCPCH Wales, 20 organisations wrote to the First Minister to ask how his government will improve child health & support the workforce we represent.

👉 bps.org.uk/news/bps-suppo…

Today I talked to a young person who stopped going to school in Year 7. He told me, when we looked around the school they said that detentions were only for when you did something really wrong and most people didn’t get them. Then, when I got there, I found out that in nearly

Imagine you start a new job and they send a strict dress code, down to the colour of your socks and style of your shoe. They also send you a list of equipment which they say you must have every day. Some of it seems a bit strange - two green pens?- but off you go dutifully to

Often the bucket is overloaded by a multitude of things so we cannot pin it down to one thing.
Our role as the adult supporting is to manage the environment so that the young person doesn't become overloaded. 1/

“I love you man”

“You’ve been a breath of fresh air”

“A pleasure to work alongside”

“I’m not going to look at the camera now”

Ian Wright, Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer sharing a beautiful, generous, gentle and empathetic moment on #MOTD . 🙏🏼

#EmpathyLightbulbs #LetBoysCry

Guidance to schools on suicide prevention in the RSHE curriculum was published this week.

It’s an illustration of how we go from a campaign by bereaved parents to Govt policy.

But what does suicide prevention in the curriculum mean? Which children? Are there risks?

🧵 & TW

'Each generation finds their own way of understanding mental distress. The ‘shell-shocked’ soldiers of World War I were understood at the time to be of weak character, although now we might diagnose them with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Victorian women were subject to

My girl works for Trauma Informed Consultancy Services Ltd and one of the things she's been working on is learning graphic art so she can move towards graphic recording events. This is her first piece from scratch (as in all components have been drawn by her). I'm very impressed. What do you think?

How do we measure the success of the implementation of such frameworks?
How do we measure the consistency across LEA and country?
How do we know whether this is yet another tick box guidance that does not get full embedded into the culture of education across Wales?

Many parenting manuals and courses use flow charts to help parents ‘establish routines’. Parents sometimes send them to me. The manual says, it’s so simple! This will help you to keep calm and not resort to shouting. 1/

Spent sometime early this afternoon with BBC Wales Cymru chatting EBSA, Persistent Absenteeism, School Attendance Difficulties and support.

#EBSA #persistentabsenteeism #schoolattendancedifficulties #support #education #wellbeing #youthmentalhealth

An infographic I just spotted based on Amy Edmondsons important work on psychological safety

These statistics are shocking. But these are not statistics. They are children who will experience worse educational outcomes, worse health outcomes and worse housing for their entire life. Childhood poverty is a policy choice

This week marks #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek , and this year’s theme is ‘Movement: Moving more for our mental health’.

Movement is important for our mental health. But so many of us struggle to move enough.

It can be difficult to know where to begin, so here are some tips on how

In so many ways it is desperately sad that we are so far removed from our innate knowing, that we have come to rely on neuroscience to tell us we have social brains and we need each other and our communities, which is , of course, the very essence of being human...

New papers downloaded for a piece of work and consultations in doing around school based abuse (bullying)- love keeping immersed in new concepts and ideas.

Behviorism is so widely accepted despite recent findings in neuroscience that have called into question just how it works and doesn't work. With that said, our society is still built on these out of date ideas with some clinging on pretty tight to old science. It is costing us!

On to the next book.

Mindsight by Daniel J. Siegel

Kat, an autistic PhD student at Cardiff University, is looking for participants for her study regarding the role of communication in access to healthcare for autistic adults.

For more information, please email Kat at [email protected].

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