Learning about Child Mental Health and understanding how to recognise potential disorders is an important first step. Below are some organisations which can help provide more support.
Please click on the name which will link you automatically to the relevant page.
ADHD
Centre for ADHD and Autism
Website: www.adhdandautism.org
ADHD Foundation
Website: www.adhdfoundation.org.uk
Young Minds
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk
Anxiety
Anxiety UK
Website: www.anxietyuk.org.uk
Website (Get help): www.anxietyuk.org.uk/get-help
Infoline: 03444 775 774
No Panic
Website: www.nopanic.org.uk
Helpline: 0300 772 9844
Young Minds
Website (Anxiety guide): www.youngminds.org.uk/find-help/for-parents/parents-guide-to-support-a-z/parents-guide-to-support-anxiety/
Autism Spectrum Condition
Ambitious about Autism
Website: www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk
Centre for ADHD and Autism
Website: www.adhdandautism.org
Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Depression
Young Minds
Website (Depression guide): www.youngminds.org.uk
Dyslexia
British Dyslexia Association
Website: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
Made by Dyslexia
Website: www.madebydyslexia.org
Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity
Website: www.helenarkell.org.uk
Eating Disorders
Talk Ed
Website: www.talk-ed.org.uk
BEAT
Website: www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk
Family Lives
Website: www.familylives.org.uk/advice/teenagers/health-wellbeing/eating-disorders-help
Young Minds
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/a-z-guide/eating-problems
OCD
OCD Action
Website: www.ocdaction.org.uk
Helpline: 0300 636 5478
OCD UK
Website: www.ocduk.org
Support queries: 01332 588112
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
PTSDUK
Website (children and young people): www.ptsduk.org/what-is-ptsd/children-and-young-people
Website (treatment): www.ptsduk.org/treatment-help/ptsd-treatment-for-children-and-young-people
Website (Information for teadchers): www.ptsduk.org/ptsd-in-children-information-for-teachers
Young Minds
Website (PTSD guide): www.youngminds.org.uk/find-help/conditions/ptsd/
Self-Harm
Young Minds
Website (self-harm guide): https://www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/a-z-guide/self-harm
NSPCC
SEND and Early Intervention
IPSEA – Independent Provider of Special Education Advice
Website: www.ipsea.org.uk
Trauma
Young Minds
Website: https://www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/parents-a-z-mental-health-guide/trauma/
Anna Freud
General charities/multiple conditions
NHS Mental Health Crisis helpline for under 18’s – 24 hours every day but you need to google it to find your local NHS crisis helpline. For example:
NHS Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) – scroll through this website to find details of these organisations to text or speak to: Shout, ChildLine, YoungMinds Crisis Messenger, Kooth, Samaritans, The Mix, Papyrus.
111 – will direct you
Young Minds
Website: www.youngminds.org.uk
Parents Helpline: 0808 802 5544
Webchat: www.youngminds.org.uk/parents-helpline-and-webchat
Action For Children
Website (Children’s Mental Health): www.actionforchildren.org.uk/support-for-parents/children-s-mental-health/
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