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Self-care is all about what you can do to help yourself feel better or to keep yourself feeling good. It’s a way that we can look after our own mental health and wellbeing.
The #SelfcareSummer Secondary pack helps you to create your own individual self-care plan for the summer holidays based on strategies which other young people have found helpful. It also sign-posts you and your family to additional support if you need it.
It’s all part of the Centre's #SelfcareSummer campaign which highlights activities, support and advice every day throughout the summer. It includes Challenge Tuesdays where you can share their artwork, photography, poems, crafts or activities which are helping you stay mentally healthy over the summer.
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Promoting emotional well-being
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Reframing Negative Thoughts
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Resource 1 - Story Board
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Clear, simple advice to help us support one another
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A list of strategies you can use to look after your own mental well being
It’s up to you to decide what helps. If it works, keep doing it. If it doesn’t, stop and try something else. And you can help us build an evidence-base for these activities by letting us know what works by clicking on the ‘Did this activity help your mental wellbeing’ button on each page. This will help us decide which ones to research further.
These activities are not a substitute for seeing a mental health professional. Sometimes we need outside help and advice. Getting help is good. No-one should feel bad about it. That’s what this site is about.
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Learn about online fraud and staying safe online
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Worksheet 1 - Safe, Unsafe, It depends
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Consider the consequences of poor sleep habits and analyse behaviours that can help you to manage sleep difficulties.
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Check the source, find out which news companies are reporting it, don’t trust all the pictures and watch out for rumours - try out fun activities to become fake news detectives!
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Learn about some of the changes you might face as you move from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4.
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Managing the challenges you might face as you move from key stage 4 to the next stage of your life.
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