INTRODUCTION TO ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

This training aims to give an overview of OTR's understanding of adolescent mental health, and a grounding for other, more specialised, areas of training. It contains some activities about the variety of pressures and challenges that young people face, some information about common presentations of poor mental health and how to identify them, a way to theorise what influences an individual's mental health (the biopsychosocial model), and some introductory information about working with self-harm and suicide.

THROUGH ATTENDING THIS WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS WILL:

• Built a greater understanding and confidence around what exactly is young peoples’ mental health.
• Explored a variety of different techniques for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of young people.
• Built confidence in how to adapt and expand on these techniques to make them applicable to your area of work or personal life.
• Developed your understanding of the current evidence-based approaches for various young people’s mental health interventions.
• Explored the criticisms and barriers to implementing these approaches and developed some solution focused ideas as to how to turn this training into sustainable change.

WHO ARE WE?

OTR is a mental health social movement by and for young people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. We offer training for the growth and learning of professionals. Our training is particularly well-placed for individuals and teams who work directly with young people. Our aim is to give people the confidence, knowledge and skills to improve our collective mental health. OTR has provided wellbeing information and support for over 55 years and offers a unique take on mental health to offer engaging, relevant and practical training.

“HAVE USED THE PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES FOR BEGINNING CONVERSATIONS AROUND MENTAL HEALTH WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. ENCOURAGED ME TO THINK ABOUT REFLECTIVE PRACTICE FOR OUR TEAM.”