Introduction to adolescent mental health

Description:

This course will cover understanding mental health, specifically adolescent mental health. It will explore how to recognise mental health issues, including anxiety and depression. You should also gain an understanding of resilience, as well as learning how to support young people to develop greater resilience and self-reliant behaviours. You should also be able to identify support networks for young people. There will be numerous opportunities to check your learning. This includes interactive quizzes, of which Sessions 4 and 8 will provide you with an opportunity to earn a badge to demonstrate your new skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. Learning outcomes After completing this course, you will be able to: understand the complexity and multifaceted nature of adolescent mental health appreciate the variety of strategies that can be employed to support young people recognise resilience as a quality and skill that can be learned and developed identify resilience markers that can be supported and nurtured identity the range of services and contexts through which young people can access support and guidance.