**Please note** This webinar has been postponed and will not be taking place on April 1. Any updates to the event will be added to this page. Thank you.
Join us online for a free, lunchtime webinar hosted by stem4 for GPs and nurses, on challenges in mental health care for children and young people during the pandemic.
Primary health care providers were struggling to support the mental health of children and young people presenting with a range of mental ill health conditions pre-pandemic due to historic underfunding of services and increased need. The COVID-19 health emergency has further created widespread health, psychological, economic, and social impacts. The long-lasting ramifications for children and young people, and their parents and carers, pose considerable mental health risks. Resources are even further stretched with many GPs finding it hard to support their young patients and, as per the results of a recent survey, having to ‘act beyond their level of competency’*.
This lunchtime seminar ‘Can you be agile when pouring from an empty pot?’ with Consultant Clinical Psychologist and CEO of stem4, Dr Nihara Krause, is informed by psychological evidence, her clinical experience of working with young people and their families and the charity’s work in mental health literacy and in creating mental health tech for children and young people, their families and carers, educational establishments and GPs and school nurses over the past ten years.
The seminar will cover:
- A snapshot of the types of difficulties children and young people are presenting with currently
- Data from the latest national stem4 GP survey March 2022
- Supporting young people with mental ill health issues such as eating disorders and self-harm with suicidal intent who don’t meet the threshold acceptance criteria, including managing risk
- Long COVID in children and young people, presentation and treatment
- The role of digital interventions
- Impact on healthcare providers, supporting yourselves from burnout
There will be time for Q&A, please send your questions in advance to education@stem4.org.uk.
Interested in attending? Click here to register your place, or email any queries to education@stem4.org.uk.
(*2021 survey by Young Minds)