Supporting anxiety (intervention) ‘tools’
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These ‘tools’ are provided to assist high quality interventions. They can be used for single agency assistance (eg. education only) or when there is a multi-agency team around a child/young person.
The Named Person/Lead Professional and Team around the Child/Young Person will need to select interventions based on assessment undertaken and informed by the advice given about interventions on the previous pages of this blog/through training undertaken.
As with all assessment and intervention, involvement of parents/carers is essential to establish the partnership working required to continue to understand the child’s needs (assessment) alongside and informed by the interventions used to supporting the anxiety.
Staged intervention
Practitioner’s using these interventions should have a strong understanding of the principles of staged intervention.
As you will see from the diagram, the toolkit aims to have interventions (supports) you can use across stages 1-3 of Falkirk Council Staged Intervention Framework
Some of these may be interventions you have tried before. Keep thinking of ways to continue to use and improve your use of these.
Some of the interventions may be new/unfamiliar to you. Make sure you read the information on these carefully and if you are unsure of using them seek advice first.
Staged approaches to intervention are designed to help us take the right course of action at the right time.
Intervention ‘tools’
CLICK ON ANY OF THE TABS TO BE TAKEN TO THESE INTERVENTION TOOLS
psycho-education
resilience
self-care
coping strategies
grounding and relaxation
emotional regulation
wellbeing techniques
A range of early interventions and additional supports should continue to be used along with enhanced supports.
The Decider Life Skills training has taken place and more training will be on offer soon.
Decider Life Skills Information leaflet.
A range of Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Services are available. These are continuing to be developed. Updates will be provided via the social media platforms shown on the left or via the Falkirk Community Mental Health and Wellbeing blog.
Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Services (encourage use at any and all stages of intervention)
Available for anyone living in Falkirk, of any age TEXT ‘FALKIRK’ to 85258
Poster Leaflet Text information
Online platform 10-18 years
Online platform 16-24 years (26 years if care experienced)
Community Health and Wellbeing Services (Tier 2/3 Services)
Barnardo’s/Falkirk Council Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing Service
Children/young people 5-24 years and families (26 years if care experienced)
poster/leaflet request for assistance form self-referral form
Aberlour/Falkirk Council Primary Outreach Service
Children 5-12 years and their families
poster leaflet request for assistance form
FDAMH/Falkirk Council Young Person’s Service
Young people 13-24 years (26 years if care experienced)
leaflet/request for assistance details
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
A small number of children who are experiencing moderate to high mental health difficulties, including anxiety, may require the more specialist services of the CAMHS.
See:
CAMHS webpage for professionals, children, young people and parents/carers
