Course | Understanding Low Mood & Sadness 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 Understanding Low Mood & Sadness in Children & Young People
Children and young people may suffer from low mood, sadness or depression at different stages of their life. They will mature and develop emotionally at different times so it is important that staff have the necessary training to help children and young people manage their own feelings, increase their self-awareness, and build their confidence, resilience, and self-worth through their formative years.
Developed by Anna Bateman, mental health and wellbeing expert who works in an advisory role for the DfE, this child mental health course provides you with the knowledge and skills to understand, identify, and respond to low mood, sadness, and depression in children and young people.
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 child mental health 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 low mood, sadness and depression
Module 2: Causes of low mood, sadness and depression
Module 3: Signs of low mood, sadness and depression
Module 4: Reducing low mood, sadness and depression
Module 5: Whole-setting ethos
Module 6: Additional resources
Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1: Understanding the causes of low mood, sadness and depression in pupils and the harmful effects this can have on them
Outcome 2: Recognising the potential signs and physical symptoms of low mood, sadness and depression in pupils
Outcome 3: Understanding a range of strategies used to reduce low mood, sadness 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 that has a positive influence on pupils
Outcome 5: Recognising the range of external resources that can be accessed in order to help and support pupils dealing with low mood, sadness and depression
Course | Understanding Low Mood & Sadness in Children & Young People
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