Extra resources
Welcome to our page of resources.
This page aims to provide you a bit more information about CAMHS, offer you support according to your mental health need, and direct you to NHS approved apps and services that may be able to assist you.
The various services we found as being able to assist with a particular mental health problem are listed below. Please visit their websites and review the information and advice they offer.
Useful resources
Apps
- Headspace – provides meditation and mindfulness tools, mental health coaching and more to help create life-changing habits to support your mental health.
- Tellmi – a safe, inclusive digital community where young people can be themselves and each other.
- Calm – a mental health app designed to help you manage stress, sleep better, and live a happier life, healthier life.
- Happy Maps – provides a list of best apps for mental health and wellbeing.
- Sorted: mental health (formerly called Feeling Good) – offers positive mental training audio programmes to help you feel better.
Aggression and anger
- Teen aggression and arguments – NHS – information about how to cope with heated arguments with your teenager, and what to do if they become violent.
- Teen violence at home – Family lives
- Somerset Domestic Abuse
Anxiety
- Anxiety UK – a national charity helping to support people living with anxiety, stress and anxiety-based depression.
- Anxiety, fear and panic – NHS
- Anxiety and panic attacks – Mind
- Anxiety – Mental Health Foundation
- Anxiety and anxiety disorders – YoungMinds
- Anxiety self-help guide – NHS inform
Behaviour
- Boundaries and discipline – Family lives
- Young Victims Service (YVS) – provides help and support to young people (aged 5 to 18) who have been victims of crime, anti-social behaviour or domestic abuse.
- Safe boundaries – Somerset Children and Young People: Health and Wellbeing
- Helpful tips from Somerset parents – Somerset Council
Bullying
- Bullying – YoungMinds
- Family lives – provides targeted early intervention and crisis support to families.
- Bullying, abuse, safety and the law – Childline
Counselling
- Stop.Breathe.Think – a national mental health service for children and young people.
- Mental health – NHS inform
- Kooth – a free, safe and anonymous online mental wellbeing community.
- The Mix – a UK based charity that provides free, confidential support for young people under 25.
- Counselling and therapy – YoungMinds
- Somerset Counselling Youth Access
Drugs and alcohol
- FRANK – honest information about drugs.
- Drinkaware – a UK alcohol charity working together with individuals, communities, industry and governments to reduce alcohol harm across the UK.
- Drug and alcohol services for young people – Somerset Council
- Somerset Drug and Alcohol Service (SDAS) – supporting people to make changes to take back control of their substance use and their lives.
Eating disorders
- SWEDA – supporting people with eating disorders across the South and West of England
- Freed – First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders for 16 to 25-years-olds who have had an eating disorder for three years or less.
- Body image, eating problems and disorders – Somerset Children and Young People: health and Wellbeing
- Eating disorders – Bridgwater Bay PCN
- CAMHS Community Eating Disorders Service – Somerset Council
Gambling and gaming
- GamCare – provides information, advice and support for anyone affected by gambling.
- Gaming – YoungMinds
- The National Centre for Gaming Disorders – NHS
- Gaming – Family lives
Gender identity and sexuality
- Switchboard – a national LGBTQIA+ support line for everyone.
- 2BU Somerset – youth support services for LGBTQ+ young people in Somerset.
- Mermaids – a trans-focused charity supporting trans, non-binary and gender-questioning children and young people and the important people in their lives.
- Somerset-Wide Integrated Sexual Health Service (SWISH)
- LGBTIQ+ people: statistics – Mental Health Foundation
- Gender and mental health – YoungMinds
- Sexuality and mental health – YoungMinds
- Supporting the mental health of LGBTQ+ young people – Place 2Be
- Mental health support if you’re lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBTQ+) – NHS
Grief and bereavement
- Grief Encounter – supporting bereaved children and young people.
- How you can support young people with grief – Sue Ryder
- Winston Wish – a charity that helps children, teenagers and young adults (up to the age of 25) find their feet when their worlds are turned upside down by grief.
- Dealing with traumatic incidents – Somerset Children and Young People: Health and Wellbeing
- Bereavement – Wellbeing South Somerset
- Josephine’s Star – offers support to children and their families in Somerset when someone special has died.
- Other matters – Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide
- Cruse Bereavement Support – Health Connections
- The Loss Foundation – a UK charity that provides bereavement support following the death of a loved one to cancer, whether that be a spouse, family member or colleague.
Mental health support
- Mental health information – JAAQ
- What we do – Samaritans
- Somerset Children and Young People: Health and Wellbeing
- Barnardo’s – helping children and young people feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful and have somewhere they feel they belong.
- Mind in Somerset
- Mental health conditions – YoungMinds
Mentoring and work support
- We’ve got this – Peer mentor support for 16 to 25-year-olds – Young Somerset
- Promise Works – a local charity making a difference in Somerset by offering mentoring services to disadvantaged children and young people across the county.
- Prince’s Trust – free support to develop the skills and confidence you need to find a job or start a business.
Neurodiversity
- Neurodiversity resources handout – CAMHS NHS
- Support services for education – Somerset Council
- Education – Somerset Council
- Kids Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS)
- Autism and ADHD Pathway – Somerset Council
- Services for families – ADHD Foundation
- ADHD and mental health – YoungMind
- Autism and mental health – YoungMind
- How can we better support neurodivergent children and young people? – iaptus
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- OCD-UK – helping you to understand obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) – No Panic
- OCD Action – delivering frontline services which helps to make a difference to the lives of people with OCD, their families, carers and friends.
Parent and carer support and relationships
- How to talk to your child about mental health – YoungMinds
- Parents guide to looking after yourself – YoungMinds
- Somerset Parent Carer Forums – the independent voice for families with children from birth to 25-years-old with additional needs or disabilities.
- Professional Choices – a website to make it easier for professionals to work together towards better outcome for children, young people and their families, including vulnerable adults.
- Relate – provides face-to-face counselling and support.
- Sparks Somerset
- Course library – NHS
- Nip in the Bud – learning about children’s mental health through film.
Online safety and safeguarding
- Safeguarding – NHS England
- Report a child at risk – Somerset Council
- Parental controls – NSPCC
- The internet, relationships and you – CEOP
- Child Safety Online: a practical guide for parents and carers whose children are using social media – GOV.UK
- Child protection and safeguarding – The Children’s Society
School avoidance
- Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) – Support Services For Education
- Not Fine in School – provides resources and support for the growing number of families with children experiencing school attendance barriers.
- School anxiety and refusal – YoungMinds
- School anxiety and refusal – Parentkind
- School attendance and mental wellbeing – Anna Freud
Self-harm
- In Charley’s Memory – provides 1:1 and group support for anyone over the age of 11 at their offices in Highbridge.
- National Self Harm Network (NHSN)
- Self-harm – YoungMinds
- Understanding self-harm – Mind
- Alumina – free online self-harm support for 10 to 17-years-old.
- Self-harm – Happy Maps
- Self-harm in children and young people – Barnardo’s
Sexual abuse, exploitation and trauma
- The Bridge – offers medical care, emotional and psychological support, and practical help to anyone who has been raped or sexually assaulted.
- The Survivor Pathway – online resources for anyone wanting to know more about specialist sexual violence support services in the South West.
- SARSAS – support for people affected by rape or any kind of sexual assault or abuse at any time in their lives.
- Somerset Phoenix Project – a specialist service supporting the development of professionals in Somerset.
- Young Victims Service
Suicide
- Papyrus – a UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.
- Suicidal feelings – YoungMind
- Support for children and young people – No More Suicide
- Suicide – Childline
- Young people and suicide – Samaritans
- My child is having suicidal thoughts – Action for children