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Best available research indicates that one in seven Australian children and adolescents have mental health difficulties. In essence, these problems can come to school in an ‘invisible school bag’ that teachers – and sometimes even the students themselves – are not aware of. In fact, teachers usually have to manage these problems long before they are brought to the attention of a mental health professional.
In this presentation, Dr Burns will discuss why helping students with mental health difficulties is the role of every classroom teacher; provide instruction on how to tell if a student may have an invisible school bag; and provide a framework for what schools – and classroom teachers – can do to help maximise educational outcomes for these students.