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This Much I Know About Mind Over Matter ... - Improving Mental Health in Our Schools (Paperback)
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This Much I Know About Mind Over Matter ... - Improving Mental Health in Our Schools (Paperback)
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Tomsett interweaves his formative and professional experience with
strategies for addressing students' mental health issues and
insights from his interviews with high profile thinkers on the
subject including Professor Tanya Byron, Natasha Devon, Norman
Lamb, Tom Bennett, Claire Fox and Dr Ken McLaughlin. The book is
replete with truths about the state of children's mental
well-being, about creating a school culture where everyone can
thrive and about living in the shadow of his mother's manic
depression. With his typical mixture of experience, wisdom and
research-based evidence, Tomsett explains how he manages the
pressure of modern day state school headship in a climate where you
are only as good as your last set of examination results, a
pressure which acutely affects staff and students too. He outlines
his strategies for mitigating this pressure and turning the tide of
students' mental health problems. The autobiographical narrative
modulates between self-effacing humour and heart-wrenching stories
of his mother's life, blighted by mental illness. His professional
reflections are a wisdom-filled blend of evidence-based policy and
decades of experience in teaching and school leadership. Tomsett
writes with genuine humility. His prose is beautiful in its seeming
simplicity. When you pick up one of his books you will find you
have read the first fifty pages before you have even noticed:
surely the hallmark of truly great writing. Topics covered include:
the real state of the nation's mental health, the perfect storm
that is precipitating a mental health crisis in schools, the
problems of loose terminology what do we really mean when we talk
about a mental health epidemic? and poor understanding of mental
health problems and mental illness, the disparity between mental
and physical health in public discourse, treatment and funding,
beginning the conversation about mental health, the philosophical
and psychological principles underpinning the debate, strategies to
support students in managing their own mental health better,
resilience, growth mindset, mindfulness, grit, failure and
mistakes, coping with pressure, York's school well-being workers
project, evidence-based strategies that have worked in Huntington
School, metacognitive strategies for improving exam performance,
interviews with professionals in the field, the reality of living
with a parent with a serious mental illness, self-concept and
achievement, perfectionism, the relationship between academic
rigour and therapeutic education and, significantly, what the
research says, what the experts say and what Tomsett's experience
says about averting a mental health crisis in schools. Suitable for
teachers, leaders and anyone with an interest in mental health in
schools. Also by John Tomsett: This Much I Know about Love Over
Fear ISBN 9781845909826.
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