When you hear that sentence what comes to mind? Did you know that The British Medical Association report 20% of children/teenagers experience a mental health problem at some point? In the majority of cases these problems remain undetected until adulthood and lead to > under achievement at school > drug abuse > violence > disease.
How can we detect at an early stage? Teachers are not trained to deal with mental health and surveys show that they would not be confident to so either. The government are looking at plans to add mental health training to teacher training, don’t teachers have enough to do with already? This could end up in children’s education being compensated for the minority.
I feel there should be mental health experts at school and let the teachers do what they are there to do, teach!
What do you think?
