Other external resources and learning materials

Training courses from MindED

MindEd is a free educational resource on children and young people's mental health for all adults.

Training courses from Gov.UK

Frontline Workers Psychological First Aid Training

Training courses from Alison

Free training courses in Mental Health-related subjects.

Action for Happiness Infographic

Resilience Calendar for July 2020

Stress on the brain

Stress on the Brain was made by a group of students from New River College (Islington), working with SoapBox Youth Centre. They talk about stress, trauma, the effect on your brain and give tips to help stay calm in stressful situations.

Supporting schools after lockdown 1/7: rupture and repair

As schools begin to reopen their doors to more pupils this week, Emma Connor, child psychotherapist and director of Your Space Therapies, embarks on a vital blog series aimed at supporting children and teachers through this transition. Over the next seven Fridays, she will be introducing therapeutic ways of thinking and practical strategies that can help us all stand beside schools at this time – beginning with the opportunity, hidden within the rupture of school closures, for a profound and far-reaching experience of repair.

Supporting schools after lockdown 2/7: staff mental health

Children don’t need their teachers to be heroes as they return to classrooms following the Covid-19 school closures. It’s much more important to be ‘good enough’. In the second part of her blog series supporting the reopening of schools, Emma Connor, child psychotherapist and director of Your Space Therapies, explains why the mental health of school staff must come first – and shares three simple ideas for helping teachers to emotionally self-regulate.

Supporting Schools After Lockdown 3/7: Loss in a New Form

How can therapists help children and teachers to process the losses they experienced with lockdown? What is the link between a good goodbye and a healthy hello? In the third part of her blog series supporting the reopening of schools, Emma Connor, child psychotherapist and director of Your Space Therapies, outlines the importance of ritual and ceremony, ordering trauma, and facilitating a textured experience of loss.

Supporting teenagers during lockdown

Being in lockdown undoubtedly has its challenges. We’ve explored them in our advice hub before: isolation, being unable to pursue regular hobbies and pastimes, uncertainty about the future, missing our friends and family, and many more. What people may not think about as much, however, is how this is affecting teenagers – now, and in the future.