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Children and young people in your Key Principles and Ways of
care may experience difficulties Working.
with their mental health. Everyone can play a part in helping children and
young people at risk.
As a social care professional, you will be supporting
children and young people with a range of needs. It This resource sets out key principles and ways
is likely that they will be encountering situations that of working but does not prescribe how to act in
are stressful and that will impact on their resilience, individual situations. It is not intended to override
mental health and well-being. Some may be harming individual organisational or professional guidelines
themselves as a response to the challenges they are where they exist. It can however be used as a
facing. Self-harm and suicide should be explored reference point for discussions about approaches to
routinely as part of social care interventions. working with self-harm and suicidal thoughts and
behaviours, or to highlight training needs.
With the right help and support
children and young people can recover
from their psychological distress.
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