Anxious Students Returning to School In September After COVID-19 Disruption are to be taught about Mental Health

Anxious Students Returning to School In September After COVID-19 Disruption are to be taught about Mental Health: Aided by @stem4org’s Free ‘Head Ed’ Resource for Teachers.

Head Ed is a free resource for educators to facilitate teaching students mental health literacy; timely both for worried pupils arriving back at school, and the Government’s Statutory Health Education Guidance Update.

From September, the Government mandated Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education statutory guidance is to become compulsory. This change in educational policy may leave teachers scrambling to find a trusted source to aid teaching pupils about mental health topics. Head Ed was created by Dr Nihara Krause, clinical psychologist and CEO/Founder of stem4, to provide teachers with the means to deliver a thorough and effective mental health education to their pupils; helping young people to build resilience, enhance motivation to change, and seek early intervention when mental health concerns occur.

stem4, creators of Head Ed, are a teenage mental health charity with a 9-year history of delivering mental health education in secondary schools, providing not only accurate and trusted information on signs and early symptoms but also offering a number of clinically developed tips resources and digital resources evidence-based mental health apps to help make change. Focusing on commonly occurring mental health issues in teenagers including eating disorders, anxiety, depression, self-harm and addiction, stem4’s Head Ed has been trialled successfully in over 100 schools in the UK, with teacher and student feedback guiding the finished product.