Resources - Children and Young People Mental Health and Wellbeing

A Sibling's Guide to Psychosis (Canadian Mental Health Association) – good guide for professionals to hand out to young people
Being Seen and Heard . Royal College of Psychiatrists. A training package providing practical and creative suggestions about working with children and parents. It contains clips of children, young people and their parents talking about their experiences of mental illness and how professional can work effectively with them.
Children and Young People's CBT skills training workshops
Children Can Understand, Unicorns and Magic Rainbows, Children and Bullying - three booklets by Heide Lloyd presented in a child-friendly format, for children in families where a parent, main carer or other special person has mental health problems. To obtain a copy, contact Heide Lloyd on heide@lloyd8888.fsworld.co.uk, or if difficulties are encountered, contact spn@scie.org.uk
Choosing what's best for you (PDF)
What scientists have found helps children and young people who are sad, worried or troubled.
Drawing on the Evidence Advice for mental health professionals working with children and adolescents (PDF 239kb)
Falling through the Gaps: service for children and adolescent mental health (PDF file), by Rachael Hetherington et al, Social Perspectives Network, 2003.
Fatal Child Abuse and Parental Psychiatric Disorder - Department of Child and Family Psychiatry Falkov, A (1996), London UMDS & West Lambeth.
Feeling Good: Promoting Children's Mental Health, The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health 2005
Hands On Scotland - HandsOnScotland is an online resource for anybody working with or caring for children and young people. The website provides practical information and techniques on how to respond helpfully to children and young people's troubling behaviour and offers advice and activities on how to help them flourish.
Interfaces Project: Exploring the links between mental health services for children, adults and families, by Tony Gillam, Marie Crofts, Gráinne Fadden, Keren Corbett, NIMHE, NHS, The Meriden West Midlands Family Programme, 2004.
Mental illness in your family (Young Minds)
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Network for England focuses on the need to improve local delivery of services to mothers and very young children, in the context of major policy initiatives aimed at improving maternity services, the development of a national child health promotion programme, and other policy drivers.
Safeguarding Children protocol - A new joint working protocol for safeguarding children whose parents/carers use drugs/alcohol or have mental health needs has been launched by The Children’s Society Include Project. They worked with Hampshire DAAT to consult with practitioners and service users during the review and development of this protocol, a universal document that links into Local Safeguarding Children structures and Every Child Matters.This document now also reflects the views and needs of both service users and practitioners.
Safeguarding in Fragmented Families: notes from PMHCWN network study day held in November 07
SCIE Research Briefing 25 - Children and Young People's Experiences of domestic violence involving adults in a parenting role
The Mental Health Needs of Homeless Young People, a report commissioned by The Mental Health Foundation and written by Jo Stephens, Barnardos, August 2002.
Young person's introduction to mental health (MIND)

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