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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
      • Further reading
      • Acknowledgements
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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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