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We came up with a practical example to show a young person how low mood feels and how it is maintained. We focused on the young person having a mild to moderate presentation of depression/low mood and used figures (led by the young person) to demonstrate the cycle. It would possibly more appropriate for the under 12s.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3NoxNO0IpE3NzJUNzNCbHN6a0E/view

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We have created characters to explain the thoughts, feelings, physical symptoms and behaviours that occur when experiencing low mood, behaviour difficulties and anxiety. These sheets can be used to create discussion.

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And here's another.....

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Anxiety for under 12s. The comic strip is about separation anxiety, but could be changed for separation anxiety, etc.

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We concentrated on making a resource for anxiety for each age group. This one is for over 12's.

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Behavioural Difficulties

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For our 12 years plus, we used the metaphor of riding a bicycle in different conditions as a metaphor for anxiety, low mood, behavioural difficulties and a happy emotional state of mind.

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We would use this video with young people over 12 to explain anxiety. It has been created by Young People Cornwall to help them understand the feelings they get when they are anxious.  This video has been co-produced with young people that were part of the 'Hear Our Voice' project and some were experiencing anxiety themselves.  They designed and acted in it themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH3Ujy0muP4

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Challenging Behaviour - "Getting to the roots"

This is aimed at the under 12s but could be adapted for older young people.  We would use a blank outline of a tree but with some suggested feelings written down by the roots.  We would ask the young person to tell us about a behaviour that they (or their parents) have difficulties with and/or want to change.  We would write the behaviour/example scenario in the top of the tree. We would then explore how they felt at that time and perhaps link the behaviour to a feeling. This would identify the feelings/thoughts behind the behaviour and how this impacted on the experience

The hope is that it will give the young person permission to see that they are not ‘The Behaviour’ and often there are lots of underlying feelings which have led to it.

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Depression

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This is our analogy for mental health for the under 12 group. We've used play dough to explain this.

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We created pictures in order to project the problem outside of the individual. Then ask questions about how the yp in the picture think/feels/body sensations.
Picture for Anxiety......