Created: Might 13, 2024 04:46 PM
The workshops will likely be held on the Household Centre on Might 20 and Might 27 (Picture provided)
A charity is urging households with kids aged 4 to 18 to hitch two informative workshops on psychological well being this month.
Household Centre will companion with the Bermuda Hospitals Board’s little one and adolescent companies unit for the free classes as a part of Psychological Well being Consciousness month.
The primary, on Might 20, will give attention to anxiousness, with despair the subject of the second workshop on Might 27.
The classes from 6pm to 7.15pm will likely be held at Household Centre’s headquarters in Sunshine League Home on King Road, Pembroke.
Every begins with a dinner from 5.30pm.
Cherise Carey, a Household Centre counsellor, will lead the discussions on anxiousness whereas Carla Bean, a medical psychologist at BHB, will converse on despair.
Peter Yates, a BHB little one psychologist, will take questions on treatment for anxiousness or despair.
Household Centre mentioned analysis on the island’s adolescent psychological well being, carried out by Daniel Cavanagh of the College of Melbourne in partnership with BHB, confirmed adolescent anxiousness and despair up 5 to six per cent on post-pandemic world averages.
Susan Richardson, director of counselling companies at Household Centre, mentioned mother and father and guardians would get essential info, together with warning indicators and techniques to help kids by way of psychological well being challenges.
Dr Yates mentioned each organisations aimed to create “a supportive atmosphere the place households really feel empowered to deal with psychological well being issues and foster resilience of their kids”.
Workshops are free, however the charity mentioned it might settle for $10 per household to cowl diner prices.
Contributors can enroll on-line at https://tfc.bm/family-groups or by calling 232-1116 for particulars.