By Jaya Carrier
I hope you’re all having a good week so far. Following on from our keynote training on T2 INSET day, I was really interested to see some research as reported by the the Institute of Education about the links between sexual violence and mental health.
Objectives: To consider the impact of sexual violence on serious mental health issues in young people
Summary:
Serious mental health problems amongst 17 year olds could fall by as much as 16.8% for girls and 8.4% for boys if they had not experienced sexual violence
Out of near 10,000 students involved in this study nearly 1,000 girls and 260 boys had experienced a sexual assault or an unwanted sexual approach
The report noted that several serious mental health problems were considerably higher in those reporting sexual assaults or an unwanted sexual approach
How does this impact me and my practice?: Some reflections arising from this that might be helpful to consider are:
What is the role of education in this equation?
How confident do I feel in being able to support students disclosing their experiences of sexual violence?
What support would I like further on this?
Please do get in touch if you would like to talk further about this - I’d love to hear from you!
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