Specialist Sector Modules
Child Mental Health
A short course on the mental health of children, protective factors, early signs and safe referral routes.
- Duration
- 3 guided hours
- Structure
- 5 modules · 18 lessons
- Accreditation
- CPD Certification Service
About this course
This short course covers child development and emotional wellbeing, attachment, the impact of adverse childhood experiences, common presentations such as anxiety, low mood, behaviour that challenges and neurodevelopmental difference, and the UK referral landscape including CAMHS, early help and Working Together to Safeguard Children.
What you will be able to do
- Describe how emotional wellbeing develops in childhood and what protects it
- Recognise early indicators of mental health difficulty in children
- Respond to disclosure and behaviour in a trauma-informed way
- Navigate UK referral routes including early help and CAMHS