Aims:
To support teachers, education welfare officers, educational psychologists, residential childcare workers in their work with young people who experience significant emotional difficulties.

To provide information on the early signs and symptoms of serious mental health problems, particularly those contributing to suicidal acts.

To promote mental health through better understanding of mental illness.

Range of Services:
Provision of group and individual consultations to teachers and other child care professionals working with young people who experience emotional difficulties.

Provision of specialist training related to emotional disturbance and mental illness, including its recognition, treatment and progression.

Provision of both certified and shorter counselling / psychotherapy courses with an understanding of the particular concerns of educational and residential settings.

Offering psychodynamnic ways of understanding and strategies for responding to emotional difficulties e.g. aggression, withdrawal, suicide and self-harm, child abuse and bullying.

Assisting schools in the establishment and maintenance of pastoral care systems.
Offering training and supervision to teachers and young people interested in developing counselling and group work skills in order to provide peer support within the school.

Providing training and consultation on the establishment of group based interventions with young people.

Providing training and support on supervision skills and the use of the staff appraisal systems to maintain standards and promote professional development.