This Much I Know About Mind Over Matter ...: Improving Mental Health in Our Schools

ISBN-13: 9781785831683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017

John Tomsett

Opis

This volume is replete with truths about the mental well-being of children in state schools, about creating a school culture where everyone can, not just survive, but thrive, and about living in the shadow of manic depression. The author interweaves his personal experience of a childhood traumatised by his mother's manic depression with his strategies for turning the tide of students' mental health problems and surviving as a head teacher in a climate where you are only as good as your last set of examination results. He addresses the growing issue of children's mental health issues with refreshing honesty, offering up a plan for averting a mental health crisis in our schools. The autobiographical narrative modulates between self-effacing humour and heart-wrenching stories of his mother's life, blighted by mental illness. Suitable for teachers, leaders and anyone with an interest in mental health in schools.