FIRST STEP TO DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH
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Develop a Career in Child Mental Health
Like adults, children and adolescents are not immune to mental health disorders. However, often children experience these disorders differently to adults, and there are also some problems which are unique to children. As such, treatment often needs to be different and children need to be viewed in context and helped in ways that make sense to them.
This course examines different types of mental health problems which can affect children and youth. The focus here is on disorders other than those which are known as pervasive developmental disorders (e.g. autism spectrum disorder), learning disorders (e.g. mathematics disorder) or behavioural disorders (e.g. conduct disorders and ADHD). Instead we are concerned with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, tic disorders and problems associated with brain disease or injury, environmental factors, abuse and neglect.
The course is an excellent first step to developing an understanding of children’s mental health. It covers a range of mental health conditions in children and adolescents including:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Brain Disorders
- Tic Disorders
- Eating Disorders
Course Details
Study Duration / Course Delivery:
This advanced online course takes approximately 200 hours to complete, but you have lifetime access to suit your self-paced learning.
Study Method:
100% Online
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Core Modules
1. Nature and Scope of Mental Health – looking at differences between adult and child and adolescent mental health. What do we mean by mental health? Mental wellness etc.
- INTRODUCTION
- UNDERSTANDING NORMAL CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
- GOOD MENTAL HEALTH
- UNDERSTANDING CHILDHOOD MENTAL ILLNESS
- PREVALENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
- DIFFERENCES TO ADULT MENTAL HEALTH
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MENTAL HEALTH INDUSTRY
2. Childhood Depression also shows how this changes when reaching adolescence. signs and symptoms and treatments.
- INTRODUCTION
- TYPES OF DEPRESSION IN CHILDHOOD
- DIAGNOSIS OF DEPRESSION IN CHILDREN
- CAUSES OF CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION
- ASSESSING RISK OF SUICIDE
3. Anxiety Disorders – separation, generalised etc. school phobias, social phobias etc. signs/symptoms/treatment
- INTRODUCTION
- SCOPE AND NATURE OF ANXIETY DISORDERS
- DIFFERENT TYPES OF ANXIETY DISORDERS
- CHILDHOOD ANXIETY DISORDERS
- ADOLESCENT ANXIETY DISORDERS
- OTHER ANXIETY RELATED PROBLEMS
4. Tic Disorders – Tourette’s etc. signs/symptoms/treatment
- INTRODUCTION TO TIC DISORDERS
- TYPES OF TICS
- GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME (TOURETTE’S DISORDER)
- TRANSIENT TIC DISORDER
- CHRONIC TIC DISORDER
- TIC DISORDER (NOS)
5. Brain Disorders (Injury & Disease) signs/symptoms/treatment
- INTRODUCTION
- DIFFERENCES TO ADULTS
- TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
- CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS
- GENETIC DISORDERS
- TUMOURS
- INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
- EPILEPSY
- ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS
6. Other Disorders – Motor Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Feeding & Eating Disorders; signs/symptoms/treatment
- INTRODUCTION
- ELIMINATION DISORDERS
- ENCOPRESIS
- ENURESIS
- FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD
- REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER
- SELECTIVE MUTISM
- STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER
7. Environmental Problems – Abuse and Neglect, Relationship Problems signs/symptoms/treatment
- INTRODUCTION
- CHILD ABUSE
- DEFINITION OF CHILD ABUSE
- FACTITIOUS DISORDER BY PROXY
- THE EFFECTS OF ABUSE
- ATTACHMENT ISSUES
- LIFESTYLE
8. Problems of Adolescence – Anorexia, Bulimia, Substance Use, Family Conflict signs/symptoms/treatment
- INTRODUCTION
- SIGNIFICANT DISORDERS OF ADOLESCENCE
9. Holistic and Alternative Approaches to Treatment – this should be a general approach to dealing with children & adolescents i.e. not directed at specific conditions
- DRUG TREATMENTS
- FOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH
- ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES – homeopathy, art therapy, music therapy, counselling/psychotherapy, craniosacral/biodynamic osteopathy, kinesiology, aromatherapy, sensory integration, behavioural optometry, hearing and mental health, movement therapies.
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IS COURSES4ME ACCREDITED
Yes. All of our courses are endorsed by the IARC (www.iarcedu.com) and accredited by ICOES (www.icoes.org). ICOES has an independent board of management that ensures that the Foundation operates in accordance with its purpose. It has an Advisory Board consisting of independent professors who developed and implemented the Accreditation Standards, a quality charter that is used for the annual review of prospective and existing accredited course providers.
Career Opportunities
This certificate opens up the gateway for you to seek employment in various businesses, some career outcomes may require further training and /or qualifications.
- Youth work
- Child and adolescent counselling
- School counselling
- Teaching
- Child psychology
- Caring roles
- Youth coaching
YOUTH WORK
YOUTH COACHING
CARING ROLES
TEACHING
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