Social anxiety: using poetry to talk about young people’s mental health

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2023, and this year’s theme is ‘Anxiety’.

Here’s a guest blog post I wrote for the Children’s Poetry Summit. It includes an extract from a free resource on using poems as a ‘way in’ to help young people talk about mental health issues. In this example, I explore social anxiety.

https://childrenspoetrysummit.com/2023/05/11/shauna-darling-robertson-using-poetry-to-talk-about-young-peoples-mental-health/