Content Type: Video or Film

Video: Mental health in children – deciding what’s best together

A short film exploring the importance of shared decision making in mental health.

What to expect at your forensic assessment appointment

A video to reassure children before they attend for forensic assessment.

Singing Hands

Singing Hands introduces you to the amazing world of signing with Makaton.

Little Translators: Explaining new MRI techniques

Audience: children, young people, healthcare professionals, parents Phoebe and her friend Alice help explain Dr Patrick Hales’ research. Phoebe is a childhood cancer survivor. Dr Hales is researching new scanning techniques to improve brain cancer diagnosis and monitoring of childhood cancer. This video could be shown to a child to prepare them for an MRI…

Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Service video

In this video children from around England talk openly about their experience of epilepsy.

The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain

A Ted Talk exploring how the ‘social brain’ develops in adolescents.

When I Worry About Things

When I Worry About Things is a collection of animated films that use personal testimony to explore mental health issues from the perspective of children.

Talking Mental Health

Audience: children, young people, healthcare professionals, parents Talking Mental Health is an animation designed to help begin conversations about mental health. The film was designed with a classroom setting in mind  but the principles can also apply to a healthcare setting, as well as to every day home and family life. It aims to give…

Developmental Language Disorder: Hidden but common

This short video introduces people to developmental language disorder.

Patient Experience video at CHFT Children’s Ward

This short film shows the patient journey in the children’s wards across Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.