What you might notice
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The child or young person may present with needs at home and/or school. These may include:
- Increase in frequency of behaviours that challenge
- Becoming more withdrawn
- Easily distracted
- Changes in appetite (eating more or less than normal)
- Changes in sleep (sleeping more or less)
- Avoiding particular situations
- Heightened emotional responses
- Increase in irritability
- Increased reporting of physical symptoms (headaches, stomach aches) which are medically unexplained
- Difficulty communicating emotions
- Reporting of low mood/anxiety/panic attacks
- Reporting of thoughts of self-harm or suicidal thoughts
- Increase in social and interpersonal difficulties
- Substance misuse