Mental Health Therapist

What can your Mental Health Therapist do?

School staff and Mental Health Therapists (MHT) work collaboratively to identify students that require support. The following indicators may help to identify students who struggle with mental health concerns.

This child/student: 

• Exhibits emotions that are not typical in a given situation or context. For example, they show anger or withdraw in situations that would not distress most students. 
• Shows emotions for a longer time than peers. This child is not able to shift his or her attention away from the event, person, or situation when he or she cannot handle the situation that has occurred. This student may not try to distract himself or if he does distract himself, it does not help. 
• Becomes upset and has significant difficulty calming down or recovering even when adults are sympathetic and trying to help. In Edmonton Catholic Schools we have access to Mental Health Therapists through Alberta Health Services (AHS) who can provide mental health support on-site at school. 

If a child is deemed to struggle with emotion regulation, and mental health concerns are indicated, schools can request services through the AHS Mental Health Therapist.

Services may include Individual therapeutic support, or therapeutic targeted groups as well as collaboration with Inclusive Programming and the Multi-Disciplinary Team.