Emma Crowder is our Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP); she works with multiple schools across Sheffield and has Thursday allocated to Oasis Watermead.
Emma works as part of the Sheffield Mental Health Support Team (MHST), made up of NHS senior mental health clinicians and EMHPs. The service provides interventions for mild to moderate and emerging mental health difficulties and supports the whole school approach to emotional wellbeing. The team is part of CAMHS wider structure, but is a different service to Community CAMHS who are more focused on severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
Emma’s interventions involve working with children and their families for between 6 to 8 sessions, usually with a specific goal or outcome in mind. Emma’s therapeutic approach is heavily informed by Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (LI-CBT), which uses guided self-help and education around common mental health problems as core principles.
It’s important to know that the work Emma completes with children and their families requires parental consent and referral is treated confidentially (unless she needs to share information around risk or safeguarding, which she will do via the Safeguarding Lead (Mrs Brailsford).
It would be good to embed this video to provide a visual representation of who we are and a bit of background into the EMHP role (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BALKNvAnDXg).
This link (https://www.camhs-resources.co.uk/) has a good selection of resources (websites, apps, videos, books, general downloads) to support wellbeing.