Mental Health Courses
ADHD: Combining Therapies and Collaborative Treatment
This micro skills course from NHS Health Education England briefly recaps the elements of autism and points to other sessions in Child & Adolescent Mental Health where there is more detailed information. It then focuses attention on the complexity of delivering useful interventions across disciplines and across agencies in a coordinated manner that benefits the child and their family. It offers suggestions to good practise through worked examples.
Abscond and Treatment Refusal
This micro skills course from the Royal College of General Practitioners provides worked examples of cases where patients have refused treatment or threatened to leave the hospital. It considers what action can be taken by healthcare professionals to treat such patients safely and within the law. It covers the assessment of capacity and the treatment of patients under the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act.
Acceptable, Accessible Services
This micro skills course from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health will explore how accessibility and acceptability of services is crucial to high quality effective service delivery. It presents practical guidance about what young people mean by accessible services. It also provides examples, illustrating how this relates to longer term engagement and good outcomes for children, young people and families.
Achieving Collaboration
This micro skills course from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health looks at how children and young people can take part in decision-making - what does it look like and how we can achieve it within a service setting.
Addressing Issues in the Family Networks and Improving Relationships
This micro skills course from NHS Health Education England explores how to engage and make the most of some of the networks around a family as well as briefly exploring how to improve relationships within the family unit.
Adjustment Disorder
This micro skills course from NHS Health Education England reviews the features and symptoms of adjustment disorder, how it differs from other reactions to stress, and which children and young people are susceptible to it. It also looks at its impact and the different approaches to treatment.
An Introduction to Transformation
This multi skills course from NHS Health Education England will describe the context for transformation of children and young people's mental health services and explain how local transformation planning can impact across whole systems. Later, it will explore the importance of co-production with children and young people in helping to support whole system transformation.
Antenatal Care
This micro skills course from NHS Health Education England aims to enable the development of knowledge and understanding around antenatal mental health care. It is designed to give an overview of the key aspects of antenatal care that would enable the delivery of high-quality care services to all women, but particularly those with a history of past or present mental health problems. It will outline the key aspects of assessment, management and referral of this client group, with particular emphasis on woman-centred mental health assessment and care planning.
Anxiety Disorders
This micro skills course from NHS Health Education England aims to provide learners with a greater understanding of how common anxiety disorders present in children and young people, and how to assess and treat them.
Applying the Law
This micro skills course from NHS Health Education England is aimed at a specialist audience: trainee and practising counsellors. The session provides an introduction to the ways in which the law can impact on the practice of counsellors working with children and young people. The session looks at different ways in which the law can apply to working with this client group, and how this relates to ethics, policy and day-to-day practice. It also looks at different 'levels' of the law, such as Acts of Parliament, case law and codes of practice. Finally, the session looks at some of the main problem areas regarding the law which counsellors may come across, and sets out some of the main sources of help available to work with these issues.
Assessing Infants and Mothers
This micro skills course from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health provides an overview of assessing infant and parent interactions including problems that indicate infant mental health problems.
Assessing Mental Capacity
This micro skills course from NHS Health Education England links to the statutory principles in session Mental Capacity Act as Part of Human Rights, and explains the requirement to do everything practicable to empower people to make their own decisions, with practice examples. It also outlines the Mental Capacity Act test for lack of capacity with practice examples and explains who is responsible for the assessment, what should trigger an assessment, how should it be done and how lack of capacity to consent should be recorded.

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