This Much I Know About Mind Over Matter... Improving Mental Health in Our Schools

by John Tomsett

Overview

John Tomsett addresses, with refreshing honesty, the growing problem of the mental health issues experienced by children and young people, offering up a plan for averting a mental health crisis in our schools. 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, Claire Fox, Tom Bennett and Dr Ken McLaughlin. The book is replete with truths about the state of children's mental wellbeing, about creating a school culture where everyone can thrive and about living in the shadow of his mother's manic depression.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785831683
Publisher:	Crown House Publishing
Publication date:	05/30/2017
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Preface xi

1 Un-love letter 1

2 Mind over matter 5

3 The signal and the noise 9

4 Going, going … 23

5 The view from here: Rt Hon. Norman Lamb MP 27

6 Let them do it 37

7 The view from here: Claire Fox 41

8 Heart-stopping 51

9 What's the worst thing that can happen? 55

10 Live hard 61

11 The view from here: Natasha Devon MBE 65

12 Manic 75

13 Feel the fear but be a head teacher anyway 79

14 Inevitability 89

15 The view from here: Dr Ken McLaughlin 93

16 Perspective 101

17 Think to thrive 105

18 Failure 117

19 Mindfulness, growth mindset and grit 121

20 Embarrassed 131

21 The view from here: Professor Tanya Byron 135

22 Happiness 145

23 Wisdom 149

24 The best medicine 161

25 The view from here: Tom Bennett 165

26 Calm 175

27 Who owns the child? 179

28 Déjà vu 197

29 Metacognitive tools for performing well in examinations 201

30 Someone to do nothing with 215

31 Turning the tide? 219

32 Survival 237

End note 241

Bibliography 243