Online training: Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Time commitment (watch in your own time)
- 10 x 1 to 2-hour sessions on specific mental health problems
- 2 x additional mental health webinars on therapeutic skills
- Assessment: Mainly multiple choice to assess your assimilation of the course content
Fees
£545.00
Please note: IATE courses do not qualify for government education funding. As such, students cannot fund our courses via the Student or Advanced Learner Loans.
As we are not able to sponsor international students, you must have the right to live, work and/or study in the UK to join one of our on-site training programmes. Please note that we do not give advice on visas or visa requirements to live, work and/or study in the UK.
Learn anytime, anywhere
Trainers: Dr Margot Sunderland and other top psychologists and experts by lived experience
A flexible rolling training programme co-run by The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (Academic Partner of East London) and Centre for Child Mental Health.
About the training
In the public arena, the media and schools, the narrative about mental health sounds a bit like symptoms descend on you like Covid or the common cold. It’s a narrative that’s superficial, impoverished, brings little hope and is not neuroscience or psychology research informed. It rarely informs you about causes (apart from broken brain and faulty genes myths which are just plain wrong) or about how to recover, meaning transformational change rather than just temporary relief or symptom control. In contrast when people are given the wealth of research (made accessible) and fascinating insights about the impact of unprocessed traumatic life experience on mind, body and brain, they feel both relief and hope. They are often motivated to engage in the relational interventions proven to bring mind in torment to mind in peace.
So, this training is for anyone who works with children and young people who wants the neuroscientific and psychological truth about mental health problems and how people can go on to live quality of life without emotional baggage. Proof? Trauma Informed Schools UK (sister organisation of IATE/CCMH) has been using this knowledge and interventions in over 5000 schools with over 20,000 staff. The knowledge and interventions are changing so many lives.
Course Content
- Causes of mental health problems: helping children and young people (cyp) heal.
- Causes of chronic anxiety, phobias, obsessive-compulsive rituals, panic attacks, insomnia: helping cyp heal.
- Causes of emotionally based school avoidance: helping cyp heal.
- Causes of depression: helping cyp heal.
- Causes of self-harm: helping children helping cyp heal.
- Causes of hearing voices, dissociation, ‘psychosis’: helping cyp heal.
- Causes of low self-esteem/self-hate: helping cyp heal.
- Causes of anger problems/complex PTSD/violent behaviour: helping cyp heal.
- Eating disorders, body dysmorphia, somatic symptoms, causes and healing.
- Suicidal ideation and attempts: causes, healing and prevention.
