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      • Introduction and guidance
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      • Session 1: Setting the scene by looking at the past
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      • Session 2: Increasing your knowledge of mental health
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      • Session 3: Mental health promotion and education
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      • Session 4: A global view of children’s mental health and wellbeing
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      • Session 5: Wellbeing and mental health in education settings (1)
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      • Session 6: Professional support for children and their mental health
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      • Session 7: Exploring some of the interventions to support children’s mental health
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        • Introduction
        • 1 Counselling and therapy
          • 1.1 Adult–child power imbalance
        • 2 Cognitive behavioural therapy
          • 2.1 Aims of cognitive behavioural therapy with young children
            • Implementing CBT in practice
        • 3 Play therapy
          • 3.1 Play therapy in action
        • 4 Art therapy with refugee children
        • 5 Medication
          • 5.1 The pros and cons of medication
        • 6 Trauma-informed schools
        • 7 Parenting programmes
          • 7.1 Evaluating parenting programmes
        • 8 Personal reflection
        • 9 This session’s quiz
        • 10 Summary of Session 7
        • References
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        • Acknowledgements
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      • Session 8: The influence of screen time on young children’s mental health and wellbeing
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    Further reading

    British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP)
    Department for Education: Helping parents to parent
    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.
    NHS: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
    National Institute for Clinical Excellence: Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people: recognition and management
    National Institute for Clinical Excellence: Children and Young People’s Mental Health: how NICE resources can support local priorities.
    Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management. See page 41 for information relating to children under 5.
    Public Health England Local action on health inequalities: Good quality parenting programmes.
    Trauma Informed Schools
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