Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services

On-Line Learning

• Leicester University (www.le.ac.uk/greenwood)

• Young Minds (http://www.youngminds.org.uk/publications/all-publications/publications-by-subject/camhs)

• Every Child Matters(http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/)

 

 

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

Information about the prevalence and issues of child mental health.

Training Event

Multi-agency training event provided by CAMHS:

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Title: Working Together in Children and Young People's

          Mental Health - Promoting Positive Mental

          Health (2 day course)

 

Date(s): To be confirmed

 

Target group: People who work with children and young people. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

 

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

Define mental health

• Evaluate how personal values and beliefs affect perceptions and understanding of mental health/ill health

• Demonstrate knowledge of what constitutes ‘mentally healthy’ for a child across developmental stages/years

• Describe and evaluate risk/vulnerability factors that affect a child’s mental health

• Describe and evaluate protective/resilience factors that affect a child’s  mental health and different approaches to enhance/amplify them

• Develop a greater awareness of the working frameworks of different agencies and explain how they can contribute to the promotion and management of mental health issues

• Acknowledge own role in promoting mental health in children

• Demonstrate increased confidence in identification of children with more specific needs and how they can support them

• Demonstrate ability to co-work with other agencies and justify referral to another agency to meet the child/young person’s mental health needs

• Identify and appropriately address risk in relation to children and young people with existing mental health difficulties.

Training Event

Title: Eating Problems in Adolescents (1 day course)

 

Date(s): To be confirmed

 

Target group: People Who work with children and young people. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

 

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• The day aims to give a theoretical and practical overview of eating problems in adolescents and its relevance to multi-agency working at a primary care level.

Training Event

Title: Managing Adolescent Anger (1 day course)

 

Date(s): To be confirmed

 

Target group: People Who work with children and young people. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

 

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• The day aims to give a theoretical and practical overview of anger and its relevance to multi-agency working with adolescents.

Training Event

Title: Autism

 

Date(s): To be confirmed

 

• Target group: People who work with children and young people. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

• Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

  The day aims to give a theoretical and practical overview of Autism and its relevance to multi-agency working with children and adolescents.

Training Event

Title: ADHD (1 day course)

 

Date(s):  To be confirmed

 

Target group: People who work with children and young people. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

 

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• The day aims to give a theoretical and practical overview of ADHD and its relevance to multi-agency working with children and adolescents.

Training Event

Title: Depression (1 day course)

 

Date(s): To be confirmed

 

Target group: People who work with children and young people. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

 

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• The day aims to give a theoretical and practical overview of Depression and its relevance to multi-agency working with children and adolescents.

Training Event

Title: Self Harm (1 day course)

 

Date(s): To be confirmed

 

Target group: People who work with children and young people. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent and voluntary sector.

 

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

• The day aims to give a theoretical and practical overview of self harm and its relevance to multi-agency working with children and adolescents.

Contact

Further details, including dates and application forms are available from Pratibha Patel, CAMHS Training Administrator, University of Leicester, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, Westcotes Drive, Leicester LE3 0QU (Tel: 0116 2252888 / email: pnp3@le.ac.uk).