Category: Family

Emotional Support

Online resources – Young Minds

Young Minds is the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people’s mental health.

They want to see a world where no young person feels alone with their mental health, and all young people get the mental health support they need, when they need it, no matter what.

For more information visit the website.

Emotional Support

Online resources – Butterfly and Phoenix

The Butterfly and Phoenix Project has a team of counsellors supporting young people aged 11-18 in various areas across Lancashire. As part of n-compass, they are a trusted service with over 10 years’ experience in support and advice.

If any families need support with a young child age 11-19, this service can provide support via texts, phones calls and video links. They aim to help the young person cope better with difficult circumstances, preventing them from escalating into more serious issues.

For more information visit the website here.

Best practice in the engagement and empowerment of families and carers affected by eating disorders

Beat Eating Disorders, July 2019

Guidelines that call for all healthcare providers to adopt eight best practice standards, encouraging them to:

  • 1. Have a policy that ensures optimum involvement of and support for all carers as soon as a loved one starts treatment.
  • 2. Train all service staff in the application of the policy and these standards with particular focus on the importance of carers as a resource for recovery.
  • 3. Provide all carers with useful and comprehensive information about eating disorders when their loved one receives a diagnosis.
  • 4. Offer all carers and siblings an assessment of their own needs when a loved one receives an eating disorder diagnosis, continue to monitor their wellbeing throughout the sufferer’s treatment and, where necessary, refer carers to specialist services.
  • 5. Offer all carers options for peer-to-peer support.
  • 6. Offer all carers opportunities to learn the necessary skills to provide optimum support for their loved ones.
  • 7. Inform and engage carers when a loved one faces a transition between services and ensure that effective communication between both services and carers takes place.
  • 8. Provide a mechanism by which carers’ input and feedback is sought and acted upon.

Click here to view the guideline.