Enhanced Practice in Early Intervention

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and skills in effective brief (low-intensity) interventions for children, young people and families experiencing advanced anxiety presentations (e.g. OCD, Social Anxiety), based on the most up to date evidence.
• To acquire knowledge and skills in psychoeducation and trauma informed practice/principles in relation to traumatic events.
• To acquire knowledge and skills in working with eating difficulties, tics and school refusal.
• To understand and implement low intensity interventions for self harm

The module will cover the following topics:

• Identification of anxiety presentations (e.g. traumatic events, OCD, social anxiety etc) and their impact.
• Low intensity interventions for traumatic events, including trauma-focused psychoeducation, trauma focused CBT for single-incident PTSD, delivery of evidence-based (group) intervention following large scale events
• Low intensity interventions for OCD and social anxiety (e.g. use of CBT methods including exposure and response prevention, behavioural experiments, relapse prevention etc)
• Nature and presentation of self-harm, implementation of low intensity interventions for treating self-harm and community/school support and signposting.
• Behavioural interventions for tics in children with Tourette Syndrome or Tic disorder, including parent coping strategies.
• Identifying the presentation of eating difficulties and implementation of low intensity interventions for treatment.
• Understand and treat (using LI CBT approach) school refusal.

Teaching and learning methods will include lectures, workshops, directed reading, and independent study. Clinical skills-based competencies will be taught through demonstrations, experiential learning, and simulated role plays.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.