Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Level 3 Online Course. 100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Learn to be aware of mental health signs, symptoms and treatments. Mental Health is a major issue for people living in developed countries.

It is difficult to estimate how many children and adolescents are affected by mental health conditions. It becomes important then, that people become educated about mental illness in children and adolescents, particularly because they may not be able to recognise that something isn’t quite right. This Level 3 professionally accredited course is an excellent introduction into the nature and scope of mental health issues among children and adolescents. It highlights the signs and symptoms of some common mental health conditions, discusses their potential causes, and outlines possible treatment

This course is accredited by ACCPH and allows you to join as a professional member after completion. Membership allows you to add the letters MACCPH after your name (post-nominal

This ADL course has also been accredited by the CMA - The Complimentary Medical Association. Upon graduation, students will be eligible to apply for CMA Membership. CMA Members in all categories are recognised as the elite in their field.

This course has been endorsed by TQUK. Endorsement of our courses by TQUK sets them apart from other vocational learning programs and is an achievement to be proud of. It further demonstrates that we are an efficient academy with excellent courses and tutorial support. It also means that potential and existing students, employers and universities can be sure of the true value of the learning we provide.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Guide – Child and Adolescent Mental Health

There are 10 lessons:

1. Nature and scope of mental health – looking at difference between adult and child and adolescent mental health. What 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 how this changes when reach 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.

10. Special project

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Counsellors, psychologists, teachers

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Level 3 Online Course is also a valuable addition to your teaching, counselling, management, life-coaching, or community services qualification.