Raising Awareness of Children and Young Peoples Emotional Well-being

This e-learning resource is based on the premise that ‘mental health is every bodies business' (The National Assembly for Wales 2001) and of concern to a wide variety of practitioners and professionals working in a variety of diverse settings, for example schools, the social sector, juvenile justice, charity and youth work. 

The Objectives of this  e learning resource being

1. To enhance the front line workers' knowledge and understanding of children and young people's emotional wellbeing and mental health.
2. To introduce the frontline workers to tools that they can use when supporting young people who are experiencing emotional difficulties.
3. To promote the workers' better understanding of children and young peoples' lived experiences by encouraging reflection on personal attitudes and values.
4. To provide the worker with key sign posting information

Content

This e learning resource has been written by a team of writers from differing professional backgrounds who are experts in the mental health field.

The course is divided into 11 Modules namely:

1.   Promoting Children and Young Peoples' Resilience and Strengths
2.   Multi-Agency Working  and the importance of working together
3.   Building therapeutic relationships
4.   Working with families to help improve emotional outcomes for the child/young person
5.   Protecting and safeguarding Children and Young People
6.   Building children's emotional competence
7.   Detecting Depression
8.   Recognising and Managing childhood Distress
9.   Understanding more about special needs  by focusing on a young person with Asperger's Syndrome
10. Understanding and coping with Challenging Behaviours
11. Helping hard to reach children and young people with mental health needs

Benefits to organisations

Key government agendas such as ‘Every Child Matters' 2004 highlights the importance of adequate and appropriate training of all workers in order to promote and meet the physical, emotional and social needs of all children and young people. Reaching out and empowering this workforce with key knowledge, skills and tools related to mental health and emotional wellbeing can be a challenge. This e learning resource is designed to meet this challenge by bringing a rich compact resource that will benefit a diverse workforce skilled in many fields,

It is designed to be easily accessible in the workplace, acknowledges that most workers are busy and need to have flexible learning arrangements and those who commission courses need a cost effective option.

Students will need to complete and return 11 key Assessed Tasks which will be marked by a University Tutor in order to gain Certification on the course.

Upon successful completion of this course each student will have earned  10 CAT points at Level 4 accredited by the University of Northampton and student will receive a certificate from the university validating their achievement.

The course costs £350.00 per student. To find out how to enrol CLICK HERE