Up to 25% of students struggle with their mental health at some point during their studies. During Covid-19 and lockdown measures, students reported their mental health declining even more.
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A child experiencing anxiety can be very difficult for them as they do not know how to express these strong feelings and emotions, as a result, it can severely affect their mental wellbeing.
Imposter Syndrome is the name given when someone is constantly having feelings that they don’t belong, they aren’t good enough, they are a fraud in their everyday life.
When treating conduct disorders, having family therapy and child-focused programmes helps. Child or young person and their parens might also go through parent training and multimodal programmes.
For bipolar disorder, medication is the first treatment. However, some psychological therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy and family therapy can be helpful.
For managing ASD, therapies focus on the child’s development and their ability to communicate and relate to others. This includes psychotherapy, speech therapy, play therapy, and occupational therapy.
When treating ADHD, the therapies aims to focus on the child or young person and the influence of others around them. This can involve parent training programmes and cognitive behavioural therapy.
Psychological therapies are important when treating anorexia nervosa. These include anorexia-nervosa-focused family therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders.
Psychological therapies are important when treating anxiety disorders. There are two therapies that are involved: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Exposure Therapy.
Psychological therapies are important when treating OCD. It can really help the child or young person to recover from OCD. The main therapy for OCD usually involves CBT.
Psychological therapies are mainly used for the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD). These include dialectical behaviour therapy, mentalisation-based therapy, and art therapy.
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