SEMH the Early Years Strategies
The child has little or no positive sense of self and others. They need support with social interactions, managing their feelings; understanding behaviour expectations; developing self-confidence and self control.
What can adults do?
Tools and Resources
The child needs support with transitions during the session e.g. becomes anxious, angry, reverts to repetitive play.
Resources / Tools
The child appears to be ‘in a world of their own’.
Tools / Resources
You observe the child may display withdrawn or isolated behaviours.
What can adults do?
Tools / Resources
You observe the child may display challenging, disruptive or disturbing behaviours – which may impact on their learning or the learning of other children.
What can adults do?
Tools and Resources
You observe the child may need intensive support to keep safe due to self-harming or anxious behaviours.
Tools / Resources:
You observe the child may respond to adults/other children with significant challenging physical and verbal interaction; or overly sexualised behaviour.
What can adults do?
Tools / Resources
Related pages
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and attachment
- Adopting a whole school/college approach to wellbeing
- Emotional Resilience
- Online Support including Apps
- Practices that supports CYP
- SEMH Post-16 Strategies
- SEMH in Schools Strategies
- I'm supporting a CYP who is at risk of exclusion
- Self Harm
- Contextual Safeguarding