Managing Depression in Schools
🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
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This webinar will provide practical approaches to managing depression in children and young people in school, considering day and boarding contexts. While depression is increasingly recognised in young people and therefore within school communities, early, compassionate intervention is critical. In this webinar, delegates will hear about defining depression, typical signs and symptoms and how depression might manifest differently in different genders and ages, common education risk factors and ideas for how to respond to concerns including early identification, approaching students and making referrals within a whole-school culture of mental health.
Training topics will include:
- Understanding depression in young people
- Stressors and risk factors
- Responding to concerns
- When to escalate and refer
- Promoting a whole-school culture of mental health care.
Learning outcomes:
- Able to identify early indicators of depression in school-age children and adolescents
- Understanding contextual risk factors in school and boarding
- Tools to respond to concerns and escalate appropriately.
Speaker:
Skyler Moulder, Lead Nurse, The Leys School and Senior Nurse Advisor, HIEDA
Skyler did her Adult Nursing BSc at Kings College London in 2011 and went straight into community nursing. After the birth of her first son she stumbled into community school nursing and never looked back. During her time as a community school nurse she covered primary and secondary schools all across Cambridgeshire. She completed training such as the CAMHS foundation module, Sexual Health and Contraception module and was trained in Safeguarding Children Level 3. She completed her PG Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing in 2016 when she was pregnant with her second son, which she later topped up to a full MSc in 2023 when she was pregnant with her daughter! This also included qualifying as a Nurse Prescriber. Skyler co-lead the development of a 0-19 Duty Desk and the introduction of the Chathealth text service in Cambridgeshire Community Services. In 2019 she became a Team Manager for the CCS Healthy Child Programme – managing a team of Nursery Nurses, Health Visitors and School Nurses during the pandemic. In 2020 she was recruited to be the Lead Nurse at The Leys in Cambridge, to lead a team covering 24 hour care for around 575 pupils (over half of which are boarders). This is where she is now and where her passion for independent school nursing started.
