What Do Teachers Need to Know about Child Mental Health?: Your Classroom Compass to Psychologically Informed Practice

By Laura Purser

This book provides everything you need to know about child mental health and psychologically-informed classroom practice, navigating key therapeutic approaches and exploring how these can be applied for a more sustainable, compassionate and coherent educational ecology.

Grounded in evidence-based research, the resource presents theory in an accessible format and considers our current understanding of mental health in schools. Chapters then explore a range of psychological frameworks and topics from healthy boundaries, behaviour, and neurodiversity to trauma and attachment, before practically applying this guidance to the classroom. Drawing on the author's rich experience and taking a reflective approach, the book offers teachers therapeutic opportunities to become agents of change, equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively respond to students' social, emotional and mental health needs.

What Do Teachers Need to Know About Child Mental Health? supports teachers to go beyond understanding the theoretical psychological knowledge and begin to grow in confidence in practically applying the guidance to their classroom practice. It is essential reading for educators at every stage of their journey, providing a trusted compass to steer practice, inspire positive change, and improve child mental health outcomes. The book is also supported by three online companion chapters.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032515198
• ISBN13: 9781032515199
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages