mental health
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Social media sites harming young people’s mental health
Four of the five most popular social media sites are having a negative impact on young people’s mental health, according to new research. Photo sharing platform Instagram has proven to be the most damaging, according to research from the Royal Society for Public Health and the Young Health Movement. The survey questioned 1,500 14 to 24-year-olds…
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Scottish teachers take 500,000 days off for mental health reasons in three years
Figures obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrats have revealed that Scottish school teachers have taken almost 500,000 days off work due to mental health reasons over the last three years. The FOI request found that teachers, head teachers, teaching support staff and nursery staff have taken a total of 477,000 days off work with mental health…
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Scottish Teachers Sign up for Mindfulness Training
Teachers from around Scotland are being given the opportunity to learn mindfulness skills directly from the organisation that pioneered the meditative technique in UK classrooms. Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP), which introduced secular mindfulness to British education seven years ago, is holding training sessions for both secondary and primary teachers in Edinburgh this October. Participants…
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