(UK) BBC: NI: "Anxiety problems, phobias and behavioural problems" identified in primary school

Nov 30, 2017, BBC News: Call for primary school mental health plan http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-42181593 A mental health strategy promoting pupils' wellbeing is needed in Northern Ireland primary schools, an academic has said. Prof Siobhan O'Neill said a greater early-age focus on mental health would help prevent problems developing. … But many schools were working to address the needs of pupils by developing their own plans, said Prof O'Neill, from the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing at the University of Ulster. Anxiety problems, phobias and behavioural problems are being identified in pupils at primary school level, she added, and these need to be managed. focus on mental health would help prevent problems developing "The good news is the child's brain is really malleable so there are lots we can do if we get in there really early," she said. … Nigel Frith told BBC Radio Foyle teachers were faced with a "tidal wave of teenage anxiety". … "There must be something more that we can do. …