What is the Schools Role in Dealing with Mental Health Issues?
The school’s role is fundamentally about good mental health promotion. The provision of a safe and supportive learning environment, where personal skills are enhanced by including modules in the curriculum that promote positive attitudes, coping strategies and healthy life options, with the encouragement of help-seeking behaviours are advocated. Students need the provision of a pastoral care and counselling service, as well as being informed about support services they can contact themselves. The school has a responsibility to develop and maintain effective partnerships with community. Within the school, there should be processes for notifying welfare staff about worrying statements or behaviours. A School Community that Takes Action A health promoting school is a school community that takes action and places a priority on creating an environment that will have the best possible impact on the health of students and staff, and recognises that a broad range of factors influence our healt
