Chartered Psychologist Dr Pamela Nkyi - Mental Health/wellbeing talk with year 12 and 13

On 13 February 2020, Chartered Psychologist Dr Pamela Nkyi came in to run a talk/Q&A on Mental health with our Health and Social Care, Psychology, and Sociology students.

The hour-long session was in intensely interactive with Pamela and the students doing a range of quizzes, visual learning and challenging misconceptions through discussions on Mental health.

Students were engaged throughout the session as they were provided with a strong insight into:
· How mental health can manifest in our everyday lives
· What strategies we should implement to look after our well-being including why we need to have good quality supporters ‘in our corner’.
· How it affects people of different communities like BAME for example – Pamela talked about the impact of institutionalised views & stereotypes of which individuals/groups are mentally unwell and how they should be treated.

Pamela kindly offered the students an extensive range of support contacts. These are all available (alongside information about today’s talk both below and on the student well-being Firefly pages.)

Special Thanks goes to Mrs Eyiah and Mrs Callendar for helping to coordinate today’s session.