Mental Health and Wellbeing
Coronavirus
Student Minds, whilst focused on universities, has a helpful page of further resources, links and advice.
The Anna Freud Centre has a whole collection of resources. Twitter: @AFNCCF
Bereavement
Bereavement UK have materials, resources and a helpline for supporting young people up to the age of 25.
Cruse Bereavement Care also have a wide range of resources and support available
Suicide
The Samaritans Step-by-step guide is a hugely useful resource.
Papyrus suicide prevention of young people. They too have advice for professionals and young people as well as a helpline.
Anxiety
Living with worry and anxiety amidst global uncertainty. It is a free guide to help people manage worry and anxiety in these uncertain times. It includes theory along with practical tips to help people self manage.
There are also some self-help materials for students with anxiety here:
Online Safety
NSPCC have a wealth of resources looking at keeping young people safe on line, with topics including online gaming, porn and sexting. All the resources and information are available here.
Q42 is a young peoples LGBTQ+ group based in Manchester but with national reach. They have published this guide on online safety for staying connected while isolated, there are also lots of useful links to other advice on e-safety here.
General wellbeing
Mind are one of the most well known charities working on mental health and have a wealth of information, some specifically targeted at under 18s. Worth noting that local Mind groups will have differing services as they operate as independent charities. Twitter: @MindCharity
The Mental Health Foundation is part of the national mental health response providing support to address the mental health and psychosocial aspects of the Coronavirus outbreak, alongside colleagues at Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care and has useful guides and links to useful information and tips about managing your mental health during the coronorvirus outbreak. Twitter: @mentalhealth
Young Minds is the UK’s leading national charity fighting for children and young people’s mental health and have put together lots of hints and tips for young people. Twitter: @YoungMindsUK
The Mix is an online support service for young people between 13 and 25 and connects young people to experts and who’ll give you the support and tools to take on any challenges from homelessness to finding a job, from money to mental health, from break-ups to drugs. It is a free and confidential multi-channel service. Twitter: @TheMixUK
Mentally Healthy Schools have collated a huge amount of resources from across the system – some focused on younger students, but lots relevant to colleges, as have Heads Together Twitter: @heads_together
NHS Apps Library
NHS has an app library and there are a number of Apps that are free that link to stress, anxiety, self-harm and other mental health related support here.
Student Mental Health Resources
The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust has produced a series of short ‘Vimeos’ which are between 15 and 30 minutes long and are targeted at students.
Being Kind to Yourself – students (and staff) are guided through a range of ways of self-care. This session is designed to meet this year’s MHA week theme of kindness.
Adverse Childhood experiences – an explanation of what ACES are and discussion of their impact.
Developing a Wellness Action Plan – how to use wellbeing action plan to manage mental wellbeing and signposts several other resources and support.
Self care for students with eating disorders
Managing stress in today’s world – an explanation of what stress is, what can cause stress and the potential impact on mental wellbeing. Alogn with suggestions for maintaining a healthy balance to manage stress successfully.
Mindfulness and staying present – explores how to use mindfulness in a practical day to day way, to stem the anxiety and reduce the tendency to become lost in a spiral of ‘what if’ scenarios that ramp up anxiety and impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing.
Managing the difficulties of working remotely in the current situation – addresses some of the issues that students might have when trying to focus on work and offers some strategies for managing this in face of the current, unprecedented situation.