Life is full of uncertainty, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased stress and anxiety levels in children and adults in an unprecedented way. Now is the time to do all we can to protect our mental health and the mental health of those we love. Children, teens, and young adults are particularly affected by intensified uncertainty.
Click on the below buttons to be directed to websites that may help parents manage their children's mental health during this time.
Schools and Families Advice Line
The ‘Schools and Families Advice Line’ (SFAL) is a new service established to provide emotional wellbeing advice and early help to children and young people, school staff and families during the Covid-19 pandemic. It can be really worrying when you, or someone you know is going through a difficult time. If you feel this service could help, please call our Single Point of Access (SPA) who will take your details before passing them onto our call back service.
https://www.hct.nhs.uk/covid-19/schools-and-families-advice-line-sfal/
The Youth Mental Health Project
https://ymhproject.org/covid-19-and-the-mental-health-of-your-children/
Child Mind Institute
https://childmind.org/coping-during-covid-19-resources-for-parents/
Children's Mental Health Campaign
https://childrensmentalhealthcampaign.org/resources/covid-19-resources
Young Minds
https://youngminds.org.uk/blog/talking-to-your-child-about-coronavirus/
In this digital age it is virtually impossible to stop children from finding out about upsetting news events, such as terrorism, war and violent crime, that they may find traumatic.
Advice from the Mental Health Foundation includes:
The Mental Health Foundation has more advice about talking to your children about scary world news.