1. Child Development
and
Wellbeing
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2. Cognitive Stages PREOPERATIONAL STAGE 3-7 CONCRETE OPERATIONAL
8-12
SENSORIMOTOR
STAGE 0-2
SENSORIMOTOR
STAGE
13-18

3. Psychosocial Stages HOPE (TRUST V MISTRUST) 0-2
WILL (AUTONOMY V SHAME)
2-4
PURPOSE (INITIATIVE V GUILT)
4-5
COMPETENCE (INDUSTRY V INFERIORITY)
5-12
FIDELITY (IDENTITY V ROLE CONFUSION)
13-19

4. Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

5. Emotional Health Bucket
Being able to be happy
Realising our Individualism
Getting to know our emotional and psychological selves
Developing our ability to recognise and deal with emotions
Shaping our thinking and behaviour
Believing and remembering that we are loved and are lovable
Having self-belief
Learning to believe in something greater than ourselves
Loving and being loved
Spending time feeling good
Learning positive self-discipline
Listening and communicating
BUILDING STRONG SELF-ESTEEM
Ensuring that our environment is emotionally healthy

6. Enable us to tell the truth about our lives and ourselves
Help us live passionately and to the full
Facilitate our greater understanding of the human condition
Helps us to recognise our strengths and weaknesses and make the most of both

7. WHAT IS EMPOWERMENT ?
Enable us to tell the truth about our lives and ourselves
Help us live passionately and to the full
Facilitate our greater understanding of the human condition
Helps us to recognise our strengths and weaknesses and make the most of both

8. Mental Health
And
Schools
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9. SPECIFIC RISKS

10. Education –The Key Players
Teacher/s
Parent/s
Siblings
Friends
Our Child

11. Mental Health Survey: Key Findings 2017
would not be comfortable
living next door to someone
with bipolar disorder
would not trust someone
who experienced post-natal
depression to babysit
do not think someone who
experiences panic attacks
could be head of a company
would not willingly marry
someone previously
hospitalised with depression
73%
39%
64%
Think being treated
for a mental health
difficulty is still seen
by Irish society as a
sign of personal failure
Think society view
people who spend
time as an inpatient
differently
Think the public should
be better protected
from people with a
mental health problems

12. Gilligan stigma model STIGMA
Mental Health Difficulties being associated with :Committing violent acts, Personal weakness or failure, Biological factors alone, social or family factors solely solely
Negative and inaccurate
beliefs and attitudes regarding
mental health difficulties
STIGMA
Inability to access
appropriate support
and treatment services
Negative experience of
mental health difficulties
Resulting in Fear, Uncertainty, Discrimination, Hopelessness, Continued Difficulties
Caused by: Long waiting lists, services not rights based, not recovery focused, not of good
enough quality and/or effective

13. Schools for Health in Europe
School Programmes
PREOPERATIONAL
Portugal
MIND MATTERS Germany
Walk in My Shoes
Schools for Health in Europe

14. 47% HIGH/ESSENTAIL PRIORITY 50% WERE NOT PROVIDING SUFFICIENT SUPPORT
Research Findings
3% NOT A PRIORITY
47% HIGH/ESSENTAIL PRIORITY
> 50% NO SCHOOL POLICY
50% WERE NOT PROVIDING SUFFICIENT SUPPORT

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