RCSI Online: Youth Mental Health Animations

Six animations that explore the lived experiences of struggling with anxiety, feeling different, depression, loneliness, being bullied and body image. Five of the animations are available to watch in both English and Irish. The English versions are also subtitled. The animations can be integrated into any sessions with young people exploring these issues. That includes our Introduction to Youth Mental Health presentations. At the end of the page, you can access some complementary educational resources to help explore these themes and issues with young people.

Youth Mental Health Animations Link

Mental Health Educate offers a range of youth-focused resources to educators who want to explore mental health and related issues with young people in an educational context. It is important to note that it is not a whole-school programme or approach. It was developed as a means of ensuring free access to material that had been developed by a team of academics in the Department of Psychiatry, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and a number of collaborators from the Arts, online and educational sectors.  

All of the resources on Mental Health Educate are grounded in research. Some of that research was carried out with young people in Ireland.