Mental Health Promotion for Children, Young People and Families
This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to incorporate health promotion principles, values and practices into child and adolescent mental health settings.
| Course Dates | **Not currently available** |
| Course Credits | 20 |
| Course Delivery | Online |
| Academic Co-ordinator | Thomas Hacker |
This is a core course for the Postgraduate Certificate in Health and Social Care: Children and Young People's Mental Health - Ecological Approaches.
Course Description
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing” (WHO, 1948), emphasizing the important part mental health and wellbeing play in the promotion of health in general.
Today mental health ranks as a priority area within international health agendas. The promotion of mental health is part of the wider field of health promotion and sits alongside the prevention and treatment of mental health problems.
The course is based on the recognition that everyone has a role to play in the promotion of mental health, not just those working within the health field, but in other sectors including education, local government and community planning.
The specific developmental and systemic considerations for this area as applied to child and adolescent mental health form an integral part of this course.
The course will cover the following areas:
- History of Public Health and Health promotion (including mental health promotion)
- Models of health, health promotion and health care
- Theories of health (including psychological theories)
- Understanding health inequalities and inequities
- Evidence supporting mental health promotion
- Approaches to promoting mental health
Intended Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the key models and theories of health promotion as they are applied to mental health
- Extend developmental theory to concepts underlying effective models of health promotion
- Critique evidence related to health promotion practice, including literature from disciplines related to public health (such as economic and political disciplines)
- Design and critically appraise outlines of mental health promotion programmes which integrate theory and research of different models of health promotion
- Review and contextualise the essential benefits and barriers of multidisciplinary and multi-agency approaches to promoting and improving mental health for children and young people
Course Delivery & Assessment
This course is delivered entirely online and requires students to complete10 online modules in their own time. This course is not currently available.
Assessed coursework includes a group project proposal and individual essay. Students should make themselves available at the same time as peers to enable discussion and collaboration.
This article was published on Sep 20, 2012