Course | Addressing Loneliness & Depression in Children & Young People
Price
£90.00 + VAT (£18.00)
Facilitator
Anna Bateman
With over 24 years’ experience in education as a teacher, trainer, consultant, and Interim Executive Board member, Anna Bateman has gained a fantastic understanding of pedagogy, school improvement, leadership and what works.
She is passionate about placing prevention at the heart of every school, integrating mental wellbeing within the curriculum, school culture and systems. Through this work, students have the opportunity to learn skills and techniques to cope with modern day pressures alongside their academic studies.
Over the last 10 years Anna has worked with and transformed hundreds of primary and secondary schools. She has excellent subject knowledge and a solid understanding of how schools work. This puts her in a unique position to be able to offer highly innovative and bespoke programmes to resolve specific and complex issues.
As a previous member of the advisory group for the Department of Education, advising them on their mental health green paper, Anna has operated at the forefront of new initiatives and her passion is to drive these forward to the benefit of schools, school leaders, and of course pupils and students.
Moreover, she is an accredited facilitator for the Academic Resilience Approach (Young Minds), Youth Mental Health First Aid Trained as well as a licensed PATHS trainer promoting alternative thinking strategies.
Certificate in Addressing Loneliness & Depression in Children & Young People
All staff have the responsibility of looking after the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people and should be provided with the necessary training to identify and respond to the warning signs of loneliness and depression. Addressing loneliness and depression at an early stage can reduce the harmful impact in later years and lead to better outcomes in the future.
Developed by Anna Bateman, mental health and wellbeing expert who works in an advisory role for the DfE, this course provides you with the knowledge and understanding of how to address loneliness and depression in children and young people, ways in which the signs can be spotted and a range of preventative strategies to help associated distress.
Please note: This course provides AI-generated subtitles in multiple languages including English, Welsh, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian and Chinese. To select a language, start the video and click the Closed Captioning (CC) button.
When planning and allocating your time, please consider that this training course consists of learning through video, task completion and further reading/research. To successfully understand and achieve the objectives of the course, learners are expected to engage in all aspects of the learning process and complete all relevant activities to ensure they can successfully apply the knowledge and skills they have gained in their own school or setting.
Designed in line with the following policies: Keeping Children Safe in Education
Important note for non-UK learners: Although this course reflects best practice principles and might be useful for learners outside the UK, please note that it is based solely on UK guidance and legislation. Please make sure you also adhere to relevant legislation applicable in your own country.
Modules
Introduction
Module 1: Introduction to loneliness and depression
Module 2: Causes of loneliness and depression
Module 3: Signs of loneliness and depression
Module 4: Reducing loneliness and depression
Module 5: Whole-setting ethos
Module 6: Additional resources
Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1: Understanding the causes of loneliness and depression in pupils, as well as the harmful effects this can have on their current and future stages
Outcome 2: Identifying the potential signs and physical symptoms of loneliness and depression in pupils
Outcome 3: Understanding a range of preventative strategies used to reduce loneliness and depression in pupils, as well as acknowledging the ways they can be supported
Outcome 4: Understanding how to create a whole-setting ethos and environment which has a positive influence on pupils
Outcome 5: Recognising the range of external resources and support that can be accessed in order to help and support pupils dealing with loneliness and depression
Course | Addressing Loneliness & Depression in Children & Young People
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