Our Mental Health Support Team is part of the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and consists of an Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP), a Senior Mental Health Practitioner & SPA Clinician and a team of Support Workers who are able to offer a wide range of support and intervention.
The team work with children and young people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and provide 1:1 and/or group sessions for the following:
EMHPs can work with: Mild/moderate presentation |
Low mood / mild depression / low self-esteem (intervention with young person) |
Generalised anxiety/worry, simple phobias, panic, social anxiety, mild OCD (intervention with young person or parent/carer) |
Behaviour that challenges (intervention with parent/carer or school staff) |
Lifestyle management, for example: sleep hygiene, managing stress, problem solving |
Students are referred to this service via HoY and/or Pastoral Leads with the level of intervention determined by the MHST’s.
For further information, please contact :
KS3
Mrs Evans bje@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk or Mrs Smith jvs@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk
KS4 & KS5
Mrs Wildman cxw@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk or Mrs Caulfield-Smith ccs@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk