‘That Feeling When…’ is a campaign to support young people to deal with common mental health issues that they may experience from time to time.
Carlow CYPSC has supported the HSE Primary Care and Child Psychology team to work with a group of young people in the county to develop and promote a series of short whiteboard animations about Stress, Anxiety, Low Mood, Identity issues and the Need to Relax.
Research has acknowledged that a majority of mental health difficulties emerge in adolescence and early adulthood.
Ireland specifically shows high rates of youth mental health difficulties and data indicates that Ireland has a higher prevalence of common mental health difficulties among young people, relative to the rest of the European Union.
Mental health knowledge has the potential to reduce incidence, impact, and continuity of mental health difficulties among young people, as well as reduce stigma.
'That Feeling When ...' is a youth mental health project which has been developed based on these research findings.
The concept behind this project is to raise awareness of and reduce stigma around a number of common mental health difficulties experienced by adolescents, and to provide tips and strategies on how to improve general health and wellbeing.
A series of short, animated videos have been developed, each of which focuses on a different topic related to mental health such as Anxiety, Stress and Low mood. These videos also include tips about using positive coping strategies such as regulation and relaxation exercises.
The involvement of young people in projects related to their mental health and wellbeing is key to their success. For this reason the HSE Primary Care and Child Psychology teams were delighted to be able to work with students from a number of secondary schools in the Carlow area to create a video which introduces the campaign, briefly discusses youth mental health, and provides details of where young people can access the full series of videos:
Scan the ‘That Feeling When…..’ poster QR codes using a phone camera, this will bring you to each of the videos.
Stress:
Anxiety:
Need to Relax:
Low Mood:
Finding Yourself:
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