Understanding Adolescent Mental Health
3.5 hours
This course builds understanding of adolescent mental health, with a focus on adolescent development and key life transitions. It explores risk and protective factors, and highlights how trusted adults can support and promote positive mental health within their setting.
Course content
- Develop an understanding of mental health
- Increase awareness of the developmental processes an adolescent experiences and consider transition points in life
- Develop an understanding of the risk and protective factors that impact young people and children
- Consider how trusted adults can promote children and young people’s mental health and how to promote positive mental health within your setting
Course structure
Participants will learn through:
- Mini lectures
- Group discussion
- Activities
Following the course
Participants will have the knowledge and ability to:
- A strong understanding of mental health and its relevance to young people
- Increased awareness of adolescent development and key life transitions
- Insight into risk and protective factors affecting mental wellbeing
- Practical strategies to support and promote positive mental health
- Confidence in the role of a trusted adult in nurturing resilience
- Tools to create a mentally healthy environment within their setting
Why not take a look at our more focused courses such as “Understanding and Responding to Anxiety in Young people” or “Recognising and Responding to Self-Harm”.
Further information, pricing & availability
Please contact us to discuss how our training can best help you and to find out more about this and other courses.
Testimonials & feedback
Loved the resilience wheel, it’s a fab resource to use with children/young people.
Understanding Adolescent Mental Health participant
Great pace and enjoyed the interactiveness. Very informative and has increased my understanding of adolescent mental health
Understanding Adolescent Mental Health participant
Alice is very easy to listen to, lots of space to reflect on the young people I support and consider the different approaches to take compared with an adult
Understanding Adolescent Mental Health participant
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