Mental Health
At STM we believe that good mental health cannot be taken for granted.
STM have recently launched their new Mental Health Team, which is made up of Mrs Brown, Pastoral Manager, and Miss Brocklesby, Inclusion Manager. The team will support students with working on good mental health as well as providing a Mental Health Pathway for STM.
The Team have adopted the THRIVE approach, which is a person cantered approach to good mental health.
THRIVE Framework for system change (Wolpert et al., 2019) The above is an integrated, person centred and needs led approach to delivering mental health services for children, young people and their families that was developed by a collaboration of authors from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
The THRIVE Framework provides a set of principles for creating coherent and resource-efficient communities of mental health and wellbeing support for children, young people and families. It aims to talk about mental health and mental health wellbeing help and support in a common language that everyone understands. The Framework is needs-led which means that mental health needs are defined by the children, young people and their families, alongside professionals, through shared decision making. Needs are not based on severity, diagnosis or care pathways.
The THRIVE Framework thinks about the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families through five different needs based groupings: Getting Advice and Signposting, Getting Help, Getting More Help, and Getting Risk Support. Emphasis is placed on the prevention and promotion of mental health and wellbeing across the whole population. Children, young people and their families are empowered through active involvement in decisions about their care, which is fundamental to the approach.
STM Mental Health Pathway
Please click the link below for the STM Mental Health Pathway Document.
