The number of children with emotional and mental health issues is increasing. This report from June 2015 examined whether it was having a particular impact on the high learning potential community and reasons for the vulnerability of children with high learning potential. It made recommendations on how specific changes could be made to help alleviate some of these pressures.
Too Much Too Soon? The Emotional and Mental Health Issues of High Learning Potential Children (2015)
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Description
The number of children with emotional and mental health issues is increasing. Potential Plus UK believes that many of these cases are amongst children with high learning potential, particularly those who find it difficult to cope with:
- increased stress levels exacerbated by their perfectionist traits
- isolation and loneliness caused by lack of friends and understanding within the classroom and
beyond - rigid structures within some school environments, which do not address their needs
Using surveys of children and parents from 2010 and 2015, along with discussions held with hundreds of parents/carers and teachers whose children or pupils had some kind of emotional or mental health issue, this report concluded that children in general are becoming more stressed in the UK, particularly within the high learning potential community, with a key contributing factor being increased pressure from within the school system.
Publisher: Potential Plus UK (July 2015)
