WELLBEING - Children & Young People
What is mental wellbeing in children?
Mental Wellbeing is not simply the absence of mental illness; it is a broader indicator of social, emotional and physical wellness. It is influenced by a range of factors, including a child or young persons family, their community, and school environment, their physical health and their social and emotional skills.
Mental Wellbeing can be defined as feeling good, feeling that life is going well and feeling able to get on with daily life.
Mental Wellbeing is not simply the absence of mental illness; it is a broader indicator of social, emotional and physical wellness. It is influenced by a range of factors, including a child or young persons family, their community, and school environment, their physical health and their social and emotional skills.
Mental Wellbeing can be defined as feeling good, feeling that life is going well and feeling able to get on with daily life.
NHS - 5 Ways to Wellbeing
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Support to improve mental health & wellbeing:
The Bexley Voice
'My Guide to Children and Young People’s Emotional and Mental Health Support in Bexley'
can be found here.
'My Guide to Children and Young People’s Emotional and Mental Health Support in Bexley'
can be found here.
CAMHS - oxleas.nhs.uk/services/service/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-bexley-114/
Bexley Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation
CAMHS provides specialist mental health services for children and young people from birth to 18 years and their families who are registered with a Bexley GP or who are Looked After by the LB Bexley.
Tel: 020 3260 5200
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.oxleas.nhs.uk
www.camhs-resources.co.uk
Bexley Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) provided by Oxleas NHS Foundation
CAMHS provides specialist mental health services for children and young people from birth to 18 years and their families who are registered with a Bexley GP or who are Looked After by the LB Bexley.
Tel: 020 3260 5200
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.oxleas.nhs.uk
www.camhs-resources.co.uk
https://headscapebexley.co.uk/
HeadScape has been designed for young people, by other young people in Bexley, to give them a trusted website to use for information, to check how they feel and even take a test to find out if they need help with their emotions.
HeadScape is a 'one stop' source of self-help about a range of mental health issues and conditions for young people to browse at leisure.
Uniquely, HeadScape offers young people the opportunity to independently undertake a mental health screening questionnaire, which when completed, provides individually tailored advice and information. Depending on the results, the site can offer young people living in Bexley and Greenwich the option to self-refer directly into their local Children and Young People's Mental Health Services.
Designed to work on tablets, smart phones and computers, the site is simple to use and highly visual with well-designed, colour-coded emoticons to represent feelings and situations.
The range supported includes:
- Anxiety and Depression
- Bullying
- Eating and Sleeping Disorders
- Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia
- Family Difficulties
- Gender Identity
- OCD (Obsession Compulsive Disorder)
- Panic, Stress and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Drinking and Drugs
Emotional Wellbeing Service in Bexley
https://www.kooth.com/
Kooth is a free online mental health and wellbeing service available to all young people in Bexley aged 10-25. It is a self-referral service, where young people have access to fully-qualified online counsellors until 10pm every single day of the year. There is also a range of other support including: an online interactive magazine, discussion boards, self-help tools, and wellbeing activities.
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Young Minds are the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people's mental health.
https://youngminds.org.uk/ |
Young Minds have a Parents Helpline for detailed advice, emotional support and signposting about a child or young person up to the age of 25. Call us for free on 0808 802 5544 from 9:30am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.
- The Parents Helpline is available in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- You’ll get through to a trained adviser who will listen and talk through your concerns in complete confidence.
- Your adviser will help you to understand your child’s behaviour and give you practical advice on what to do next.
- If you need further help, they’ll arrange for one of our qualified mental health professionals to call you for a 50-minute telephone consultation within seven days.
- Please note, calls may be recorded for monitoring or training purposes.
- Hard of hearing or speech-impaired? Please use Typetalk or Textdirect to contact us, or use our Parents Webchat.
- If English is not your first language, we can arrange for an interpreter as a member of LanguageLine
- YoungMinds have also produced a Parents Survival Guide:
https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/for-parents/parents-survival-guide/
The Mix is a UK based charity that provides free, confidential support for young people under 25 via online, social and mobile.
https://www.themix.org.uk/
https://www.themix.org.uk/
Childline is a free, private and confidential service where you can talk about anything. Call us free on 0800 1111
https://www.childline.org.uk/
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Helping Parents To Keep Children Safe Online
www.internetmatters.org/ |
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https://giveusashout.org/
24/7 Text Service To watch a video about Shout click on the link: https://youtu.be/UpCI8FMtouY |
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Nip in the Bud® works with mental health professionals of the highest standing to produce FREE short evidence-based films and fact sheets to help parents, educationalists and others working with children to recognise potential mental health conditions. The goal is to increase the prospects of early intervention and to avoid those conditions becoming more serious in later years. https://nipinthebud.org/
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www.selfharm.co.uk/ FREE ONLINE SELF-HARM SUPPORT FOR 10-17 year olds.
Alumina (previously Self Harm UK) is a free, online 7 week course for young people struggling with self-harm. Each course has up to 14 young people, all accessing the sessions from their own phones, tablets or laptops across the UK. The courses take place on different evenings of the week and are run by friendly, trained counsellors and volunteer youth workers. You don’t need an adult to refer you or sign you up, and no-one will see or hear you during the sessions – you’ll just join in via the chatbox. We want to help you to find your next steps towards recovery, wherever you are on your journey. |
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With You at Mind and Body in Kent supports children and young adults who are self-harming, at risk of self-harming or struggling with their mental wellbeing.
You can refer yourself to Mind and Body in Kent if you are 13-25. This is for people living in Kent. (See website for more details). www.wearewithyou.org.uk/services/mind-and-body-in-kent/ |
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Winston’s Wish charity supports bereaved children, young people, their families and the professionals who support them.
Freephone HelplineThe Helpline is free to call on 08088 020 021 and offers advice, guidance and support following a bereavement. The expert team provide bereavement support for parents, carers and professionals who are looking for childhood bereavement advice and support. https://www.winstonswish.org/ |
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MCCAED help young people to recover from eating disorders. If you are young person suffering from eating disorder or a family member, they're here to guide you. https://mccaed.slam.nhs.uk/ |
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Support for all types of eating disorders. https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ |
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LGBTQ+ counselling for young people
https://metrocharity.org.uk/youth/lgbtq-counselling-for-young-people Free one-to-one therapy for LGBTQ young people in London More useful information can be found on our website: https://www.bexleyvoice.org.uk/lgbtq.html |
Take a look at their new Young Persons Signposting Directory. It is full of useful information on support services:
Young persons signposting directory
https://www.healthwatchbexley.co.uk/
Young persons signposting directory
https://www.healthwatchbexley.co.uk/
You can use the following link to search for books on any topic. E.g. Anxiety, OCD, bereavement, Dyslexia, ASD, ADHD etc. - https://uk.jkp.com/
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The Local Offer website also has a good page of information on Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing:
https://www.bexleylocaloffer.uk/Services/2436 |
Please note that we update this page as regularly as possible but please check with the providers as services are subject to change.
If you would like to comment on this page or make any suggestions on how we could improve it, please email [email protected]
