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Certificate in Child and Adolescent

Includes second award: Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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pdfCertificate in Child and Adolescent Counselling Skills
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A flexible rolling training programme co-run by The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (Academic Partner of the University of East London) and Centre for Child Mental Health.

Start date: January 2025

Fees: Cost £995 - Please view all of our training courses and fees


About the training

  • Gain key counselling skills to enable you to develop a meaningful dialogue with a child/teenager in ways which enable them to develop psychological awareness and be able to process painful life events in the safety of a warm empathic therapeutic relationship.
  • Learn skills in forming a working alliance, active listening, developing therapeutic presence, unconditional positive regard, how to voice validating empathic responses, collaborative sense making, narrative competence (how to respond to their story about a key life event) use of arts and imagery to deepen communication
  • Provide corrective emotional experience to enable children/ young people to develop self-compassion, assertiveness, self-worth
  • Gain a wealth of knowledge of the causes and healing of mental health problems.

Part One (leading to the award of Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental health)

January 2025 to July 2025

  • 10 x 2-hour child and adolescent mental health forums (one or two Thursday evenings a month or watch the recording in your own time). For dates, please see: www.childmentalhealthcentre.org/online-courses
  • 2 additional mental health webinars on therapeutic relational skills (watch in your own time)
  • Assessment: Multiple choice to assess your assimilation of the course content.
  • Once you have successfully achieved this award you can progress to Part Two.

Part Two: From Mental Health Theory to Therapeutic Practice (Counselling skills/art therapy interventions)

27th and 28th September 2025 (online)

25th and 26th October 2025 (online)

22nd and 23rd November 2025 (online)

(10 am to 5pm each day) The final day will include an assessment, but you can attend the training without doing this. This will mean a Certificate of Attendance not the award.

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