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Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

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If you would like to study attachment in more detail, you might find the following OpenLearn course interesting to explore: Attachment in the early years
You might also find the following links useful:
For further information and resources about some of the work that has been carried out to highlight the mental health of children and their families, see the following resources and publications:
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) ‘is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people’.
The Open University is working together with other universities. The project is called Children Caring on the Move.
Inside Outside project. Illustration by a Syrian refugee child from the Inside-Outside art and therapy outreach programme for refugee children (Middle-East and Europe) founded in 2013 by David Gross, photographer.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management. See page 41 for information relating to children under 5.
To find out more about how to take into account the differing positive and negative views about screen time discussed in the course, you could read this article: Seeing screen time differently
Also see the British Psychological Society’s Briefing Paper (2018): Changing behaviour: children, adolescents and screen use