About social, emotional and mental health needs for children
Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs are a type of special educational needs where children and young people find it difficult to manage their emotions and behaviour.
Children or young people with SEMH needs may:
- Have anxiety or low moods
- Appear as withdrawn
- Find it difficult to attend school or engage with learning
- Feel scared, nervous or misunderstood
- Find it difficult to express their emotions or control their emotions
- Experience difficulty building and maintaining relationships
- Have difficulty understanding social situations and may show inappropriate responses to situations
- Display disruptive, antisocial, uncooperative or aggressive behaviour
- Engage in stealing, truancy, vandalism or drugs