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Children and Young People with Mental Health Needs, Autism or Learning Disability

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  • I am a Healthcare Professional
  • I would like to know what support and supervision is available to help me care for myself when looking after CYP with complex needs

About this list:

A selection of resources for healthcare professionals to reflect on practice, value-based adjustments and provide practical support to maintain wellbeing.

We also encourage you to explore the resources provided by your local employer to support care of these children and young people. We hope the contents of these lists will provide helpful complementary resources where needed.

Primary resources:

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes

  • Building Staff Psychosocial Resilience and Wellbeing: MindED

    MindEd

    This elearning is for all emergency and first responders, in all fields, not just the NHS. We include here Police, Fire and Rescue, Lifeboats and Waterways, Railways, Search and Rescue. The aim is to help staff to identify, better support each other and so to manage early distress and stress in its various forms. This includes, but is by no means limited to, vicarious trauma experienced either by themselves or other members of their team as a result of their work. Rates of distress and mental disorder in blue light service staff are known to be high. Collectively blue light personnel and eme...

    Date added
    3/18/2022
    Format
    Interactive
    Estimated duration
    60 min

  • Understanding Moral Injury

    Health Education England- You Tube

    Describes the concept of Moral Injury to staff that can be applied to situations or circumstances where staff have been injured psychologically due to decisions outside their control during high intensity circumstances i.e. the covid pandemic. This applies equally to the complexity and intensity of supporting CYP experiencing high levels of distress within mental health inpatient services, or within acute and paediatric care.

    Date added
    9/28/2022
    Format
    Video
    Estimated duration
    10 min

  • Professional Quality of Life compassion fatigue worksheet

    Henry E. Stamm, IV, PhD, Eastwoods, ProQOL

    An introduction to the concept of compassion fatigue and some practices healthcare professionals can consider to aid prevention or recovery from compassion fatigue.

    Date added
    10/12/2022
    Format
    Text
    Estimated duration
    10 min

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