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9781787751484 Academic Inspection Copy

The Mentally Healthy Schools Workbook

Practical Tips, Ideas, Action Plans and Worksheets for Making Meaningful Change
  • ISBN-13: 9781787751484
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Pooky Knightsmith, Foreword by Norman Lamb
  • Price: AUD $52.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2019
  • Format: Paperback (297.00mm X 211.00mm) 200 pages Weight: 530g
  • Categories: Educational psychology [JNC]
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This book is the perfect starting point for anyone looking to promote and encouragemental health in their school, or evaluate their existing provision, in line with currentgovernment priorities. It covers not only the day-to-day practical steps you can take tomeet the mental health needs of learners, but also a provides a whole bank of ideas forensuring you adopt a whole-school approach to positive mental health.Pooky Knightsmith lays out tried and tested tools you can use to evaluate the overallmental health of a school, showing how to improve and support the mental health of staff,and how to ensure that the voice of every learner is heard and valued, including the mostvulnerable - and that everyone involved with the school feels safe, healthy and happy.Pooky's simple 'litmus test' framework lays out six practical areas you can explore toimplement change within your own school, with explanations, sheets to fill in, tips fromloads of school staff, and case examples that break these ideas down into easily digestiblechunks. This much-needed book is a jumping off point for meaningful change in allaspects of your school community that will promote, support and strengthen mental healthat whole-school level.

Key to this new workbook is the strive for small successful changes rather than aiming for big changes and not achieving them. Although aimed at senior leadership, this book is equally useful for practitioners and encourages small wins with little or no budget impact, as well as whole school strategies.

It was good to be reminded right at the start that staff wellbeing is at the heart of a mentally healthy school. This book has been written with this sentiment very much in mind. It is quick to read and easy to use. Chapter one encourages you to do a self-check on your own wellbeing. Chapter two then guides you on how to take an easy audit of your school. This gives you a baseline to start from and helps you to identify which areas you want to focus on and formulate your own tailor-made plan.

Each chapter thereafter follows the same simple format, so it is easy to go straight to the section that is going to be most helpful. Highly recommended for all levels of staff that are committed to becoming a mentally healthy school

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