Certificate in Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Develop your toolbox & gain powerful insight.
This Career Academy course delivers valuable tools and insights to help you better understand child and adolescent mental health challenges. This certificate offers critical knowledge for anyone guiding a child through these crucial formative years. Learn how depression and anxiety are often treated and understand issues that can arise from abuse and neglect. Discover some ways health professionals treat eating disorders, tics and symptoms of brain injury. Enrol now to experience an online learning opportunity that imparts a clear framework for understanding the specific mental health challenges children and adolescents face.
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Course Duration
Study at your own pace – students generally complete one module per-week. See our free course guide for detailed duration information.
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CAREER BENEFITS
- Learn what treatments are often used in child & adolescent mental health
- Work towards helping young people to thrive
- Develop your understanding of youth-focused care
- Understand the unique mental health journey of children & adolescents
- Learn how to differentiate between regular behavioural shifts & developing issues
- Gather insights to understand better how different people navigate life
- Examine treatment pathways and the types of therapies that could be applied
COURSE CONTENTS
- 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
- Introduction
- Types Of Depression In Childhood
- Diagnosis Of Depression In Children
- Causes Of Childhood Depression
- Assessing Risk Of Suicide
- Introduction
- Scope And Nature Of Anxiety Disorders
- Different Types Of Anxiety Disorders
- Childhood Anxiety Disorders
- Adolescent Anxiety Disorders
- Other Anxiety Related Problems
- Introduction To Tic Disorders
- Types Of Tics
- Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome (Tourette’s Disorder)
- Transient Tic Disorder
- Chronic Tic Disorder
- Tic Disorder (Nos)
- Introduction
- Differences To Adults
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Congenital Malformations
- Genetic Disorders
- Tumours
- Infectious Diseases
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Epilepsy
- Environmental Toxins
- Introduction
- Elimination Disorders
- Encopresis
- Enuresis
- Feeding And Eating Disorders Of Childhood
- Reactive Attachment Disorder
- Selective Mutism
- Stereotypic Movement Disorder
- Introduction
- Child Abuse
- Definition Of Child Abuse
- Factitious Disorder By Proxy
- The Effects Of Abuse
- Attachment Issues
- Lifestyle
- Introduction
- Significant Disorders Of Adolescence
- Drug Treatments
- Food And Mental Health
- Alternative Therapies
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- Flexible online learning so you can study whenever and wherever you want.
- Get free access to the career centre who will review and improve your CV to help you succeed.
- 83% of our graduates say our qualifications improved their ability to get a new job or promotion.
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This course costs €549.00 or only €25 per week on a no-deposit, interest-free payment plan. Click here to get started now.
This course takes approximately 80 hours, and you’ll have up to 6 months to complete. Study in your own time, at your own pace. Most of The Career Academy courses are designed so that you do one module a week, but if life gets busy, you can apply for a course extension if you need more time.
After completing this course, you could face challenges in your personal and professional life with a better interpretive framework.
Contact a friendly student advisor on 01 437 8559 to learn about potential career outcomes and where our courses could take you. You’ll also receive a FREE CV review.
Your course is delivered through our online learning platform, which you can access from any web browser 24/7 to work whenever and wherever you want. You can also interact with your tutors and other students within the learning environment. Online learning allows you to make the best use of your time and puts all the necessary resources at your fingertips. There are no set course start dates; you can start whenever you are ready, and your tutors and student services will check in on your progress and help you every step of the way.
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This course covers some ways health professionals approach mental health challenges like eating disorders, tics and symptoms of brain injury.
