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Children’s Mental Health Week 1st – 7th February 2021

 Around three children in every primary school class has a mental health problem, and many more struggle with challenges from bullying to bereavement.

Place2Be launched their first ever Children’s Mental Health Week in 2015, to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health. Now in its seventh year, they hope to encourage more people than ever to get involved and spread the word.

2021’s campaign theme is “Express Yourself”. Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good. Therefore it is important to remember that being able to express yourself, doesn’t mean you’re the best at something, but instead is about showing who you are and how you see the world in a way that makes you feel positive about yourself.

For more information surrounding children’s mental health please visit the Place2Be and NHS websites:

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/about-the-week/

https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/childrens-mental-health/?WT.tsrc=search&WT.mc_id=EMMParentsSearch&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1NnmqPu27gIVytPtCh2hLA1fEAAYASAAEgKtQ_D_BwE

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from mental health conditions, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer a range of resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS

JOURNALS

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health / London : BioMed Central [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health / London : BioMed Central. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1998 onwards & NHS ejournal 1998 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • Journal of child psychology and psychiatry and allied disciplines / Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. [Available in print 1994 – 2008, as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards and NHS ejournal 2003 onwards.] (Alternative title used for NHS ejournal: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry)
  • Journal of child psychotherapy / London : Routledge. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards and NHS ejournal 1998 onwards with 18 months embargo].
  • Journal of child and family studies / New York : Springer VS. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards and NHS ejournal 1997 onwards with 1 year embargo]
  • Journal of mental health research in intellectual disabilities / Philadelphia, PA : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Available as a Keele ejournal 2008 onwards]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Weisbrot, Deborah M; Ryst, Erika, “Debate: Student mental health matters – the heightened need for schoolbased mental health in the era of COVID19”, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2020 Vol. 25 Issue 4, p258-259. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Noemí Pereda & Diego A. Díaz-Faes, “Family violence against children in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic: a review of current perspectives and risk factors”, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2020, Vol.14, article 40, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-020-00347-1 . [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals and Open access.].
  • Edmund J.S. SonugaBarke, “School of hard knocks” – what can mental health researchers learn from the COVID19 crisis?”, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry and allied disciplines, 2021 Vol 62, Issue 1, pp. 1-4, doi:10.1111/jcpp.13364. [Available via Keele ejournals and Open access].
  • Garcia, Alexis M; Medina, Dassiell; Sibley, Margaret H, “Conflict between Parents and Adolescents with ADHD: Situational Triggers and the Role of Comorbidity”, Journal of Child & Family Studies, 2019, Vol. 28 Issue 12, p3338-3345. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • LoCurto, Jamie; Pella, Jeffrey; Chan, Grace and Ginsburg, Golda, “School-Based Clinicians Sustained Use of a Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety Disorders”, School Mental Health, 2020 Vol. 12 Issue 4 pp. 677–688. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Glazzard, Jonathan, “A whole-school approach to supporting children and young people’s mental health”, Journal of Public Mental Health, 2019 Vol. 18, Issue 4, 256-265. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • O'Reilly M, Dogra N, Hughes J, Reilly P, George R, Whiteman N. Potential of social media in promoting mental health in adolescents. Health Promotion International, 2019, Vol. 34 Issue 5, pp.981-991. doi: 10.1093/heapro/day056 [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
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