Areas for staff Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Teachers to consider their knowledge in relation to the following to identify areas for continuing professional development:
- How SEMH needs can influence young people's behaviour in terms of fight, flight, freeze and fawn
- The risk factors and protective factors associated with positive mental health and mental illness
- How to create a safe teaching environment
- Behaviour as a form of communication and the use of techniques such as functional behavioural analysis to understand behaviour and inform teaching
- The early signs of young people at risk of developing emotional and mental health needs
- The effect their own emotions have on the emotions and behaviour of young people in their class
- Management of their own emotional well-being to maintain an appropriate work-life balance
- The impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on SEMH
- The impact of Trauma and Attachment needs on SEMH
- Emotion Coaching
- Modification of responses to individual young people on the basis of need.
- Supporting young people who self-harm.