Mental Health at Crosby Ravensworth Church of England Primary School

Mrs Tara Hollis is the school's Senior Mental Health Lead.  Tara completed the Beginner Senior Mental Health Training through Anna Freud in February 2025.  Tara is implementing a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.

Decider Skills

We are teaching our pupils the Decider Life Skills which are winning strategies for mental health.  These strategies are often used in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.  There are 12 skills:

1. STOPP

2. It will pass

3. Right Now

4. Name the Emotion

5. Opposite Action

6. Fact or Opinion

7. Self-care

8. Values

9. Listen

10. RESPECT

11. Crystal Clear

12. Reflect

Pupils learn to recognise the physical signs in their body when they feel an emotion and deploy a Decider Skill to help them manage it appropriately.

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