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Social Work Practice: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Disorders

Name: Social Work Practice: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Disorders
Price: 850.00 SGD
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Training Provider: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Course Reference: TGS-2025056151

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About This Course

Objectives:
At the end of the programme, participants are expected to achieve the following objectives: 1. Attain an understanding of the symptoms and evidence-based treatment of common children and adolescent mental health disorders.
2. Appreciate the effects of mental health disorders on children and adolescents and their families, and to engage them to seek help.
3. Apply knowledge and core skills in taking a systemic approach to the management of complex cases involving child and adolescent mental health disorders.
4. Gain greater awareness on the challenges and ethical issues related to the management of child and adolescent mental health disorders.
Application:
At the end of the workshop, participants are expected to be able to do the following:
1. To be able to screen children or adolescents for possible mental health conditions, and to refer for further assessments or interventions where required.
2. To be cognisant and sensitive to the challenges experienced by families impacted by childhood mental health disorders.
3. To integrate knowledge and skills in providing appropriate and systemic support to families struggling with childhood mental health disorders.

What You'll Learn

Children or adolescents with mental health disorders may experience debilitating symptoms, which greatly impact their functioning, learning and social relationships. Caregiving for them poses great challenges, and even often distress, to their family members. Interacting in such overwhelming conditions typically create further distress to all parties in the family and could potentially compromise the care and support for the children or adolescents. The availability of appropriate and timely community support would thus be critical, to help sustain family members in their roles as caregivers, and to support the children and adolescents regain functioning and their relationships.
This module aims to equip community social work practitioners with relevant knowledge on screening of childhood mental health disorders, as well as effective support and interventions.

The focus is on the following disorders:
a) Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder;
b) Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder;
c) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder;
d) Psychotic Disorder (in adolescents); and
e) Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Evidence-based psycho-social approaches to working with children and adolescents with these disorders and their families will be discussed. The facilitators will additionally share observations and ideas based on practice with the local population.