Children’s Mental Health Conditions

We'll enable you to develop a comprehensive understanding of these conditions and disorders in order to facilitate support.

You'll build an understanding of how statutory and non-statutory organisations can support children/adolescents and their families to aid recovery. We'll explore coping mechanisms and who these influence, the child’s mental wellbeing, social communication and behavior regulation, as well as learning disabilities. The teaching and learning will also focus on the family and how the dynamics, culture and systems can affect the child’s mental health, and how mental wellbeing affects the family. Interventions and treatment will also be explored in relation to mental health issues in children.

Outline content

• Children's mental wellbeing
• Child and adolescent mental health conditions/problems
• Mental health interventions
• Learning disabilities
• Disorders of emotional wellbeing, social communication and behavioural regulation
• Impact of mental wellbeing on the family and education
• Substance misuse
• Mental health interventions and treatments

This module is delivered in a blended approach, with five fortnightly face-to-face teaching sessions on our Chelmsford campus, and the remainder of learning online. You'll be expected to attend all face-to-face teaching sessions.

For your assessment, you'll submit a summative assessment in the form of a 3,000-word essay.

Other study options
You can take this module as part of our BSc (Hons) Child and Adolescent Mental Wellbeing Top-Up or MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Wellbeing courses.