Category Archives: Mental Health

Managing Stress and Worry: Workshops for Young People – (CAMHS Midlothian)

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Our NHS colleagues from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) are running a two-part workshop for young people, supporting them to manage stress and worry. These sessions focus on helping young people to understand stress and worry and in finding strategies that can help them to manage these feelings.  All secondary school-aged young people are very welcome to join these workshops. The CAMHS team (Kyle, Gemma & Catherine) will deliver these sessions with the opportunity for questions throughout and at the end of the workshop using the Q&A chat function. There is no expectation for attendees to ask questions, they can join and just listen over the hour. Cameras are automatically disabled on Microsoft Teams Live Events so you won’t be on camera during the sessions.

You do not need to register for these workshops, simply join the workshop using the links provided below. Further information can be found on the information sheet attached.

Managing stress and worry: A workshop for young people

Session 1 Understanding stress and worry: Tuesday 7th June 2022

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGMyNDE1ZjctYTQyYy00ZTgyLWI3N2UtNjNjZGY4ZmNhZjI5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2210efe0bd-a030-4bca-809c-b5e6745e499a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d5a12528-0354-4406-aaed-a1ae5a3ed245%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d&btype=a&role=a

 

Session 2 Strategies for managing stress: Tuesday 14th June 2022

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NTM2ZjY1ODgtNTEwNS00MzczLWE0MTUtZmMyN2E5NDZhNDg1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2210efe0bd-a030-4bca-809c-b5e6745e499a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d5a12528-0354-4406-aaed-a1ae5a3ed245%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d&btype=a&role=a

 

Times: 4-5pm

Supporting the wellbeing of neurodivergent C&YP

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A new service supporting the wellbeing of neurodivergent C&YP in Edinburgh has been introduced. It is a partnership project between Barnardo’s, Tailor Ed Foundation (5-16) and Number 6 (16-24) and CAMHS. There will be groups and some individual support on developing awareness/understanding, insight, and identity, and looking after wellbeing. This has been funded by the City of Edinburgh Council Community Mental Health Funding

Families who feel they may benefit from the service should be encouraged to self refer:

Barnardo’s are operating a triage service, providing emotional support, practical strategies and signposting to help get C&YP to the right service for them. Young people and/or their parents can simply get in touch by email NDwell@barnardos.org.uk or come along to one of their community drop ins (see website for dates).

5 Steps towards wellbeing

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Our wellbeing display can be viewed in the main corridor on the first floor. Take your time and challenge yourself to complete the 5 steps. Explore the QR codes and links on the last board.

Place2Be – Mental Health Peer Mentor Opportunity

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Mental Health

Place2Be aims to support young people and their mental health through a community-based youth work approach. Part of the project is the training of young people as peer mentors to support other young people. The Y2Bee Peer Mentor Training aids young people in raising their awareness around their own mental health and the mental wellbeing of their peers, and in growing their skills to support other young people in the community.

It will be held on a Wednesday evening 6.30pm – 7.30pm for 3 sessions every 2 weeks

Starting group 1 Oct to Nov

Another group Nov to Dec

 

Please contact your PSL if you would like to take part in this opportunity.

Mrs McDermott

Parent Anxiety Workshop – Information for parents and carers

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Dear Parents,

We want to make you aware of a two-session anxiety workshop for parents delivered by NHS colleagues from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).  This workshop is targeted at parents/carers who have children who experience anxiety that they find difficult to manage. All parents and carers are very welcome to join these workshops. The CAMHS team (Kyle & Catherine) will deliver this session with the opportunity for questions from parents throughout and at the end of the workshop (there is no expectation for attendees to ask questions or to turn their cameras on during the session, you can absolutely just join and listen over the 90 minutes).

You do not need to register for these workshops, simply join the workshop using the link provided below. Further information can be found on the information sheet below.

 

Parent Anxiety Workshops:

Session 1 Understanding Anxiety: Tuesday 12th October 2021

Times: 1pm-2:30pm

Join live event

 

Session 2 Supporting your Children with Anxiety: Tuesday 26th October 2021

Times: 1pm-2:30pm

Join live event

 

Download: Parent Anxiety Workshop – Information Sheet (Live Events Oct-Dec 2021)

 

Ms Gail Preston

DHT Pupil Support

Dalkeith High School

Eating Disorders in Children – Information for Parents & Carers

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BEAT are offering (in conjunction in a project with NHS Lothian), Scotland wide, the useful phone based coaching support (for parents/carers, supported by parent experts by experience) called ECHO and email based support (for young people 12-25 with an eating disorder diagnosed or self identifying, supported by young adults now recovered from an eating disorder)  called SHARED. Here are links for signposting too.

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/support-services/echo-peer-coaching

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/support-services/my-area/shared