Interventions for Emerging Mental Health Difficulties in Education Settings

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critically reflect on and develop skills to harness self-help and peer-support potential of CYP in educational settings
• Critically reflect on and develop skills to train others in basic mental health intervention skills
• Critically reflect on and demonstrate competence in addressing early indicators of emerging mental health problems in an educational setting
• Critically reflect on and demonstrate competence in a school and college context working with large numbers of at risk children and young people
• Critically reflect on and develop skills in co-ordinating with healthcare and other service providers

Early Intervention Approaches in education settings:

The EMHP must develop an understanding of all of these intervention approaches, they will need to develop competency in a model of consultation and then either Group work with children or young people OR/ Parenting Groups. It will be important to make sure that these different areas of intervention competency are fully represented across individual Education Mental Health Teams:

• Consultation to education staff: Demonstrate competence and skill in offering consultation to school / college staff in relation to common problems that children and young people experience. Draw on a formal model of consultation to structure the consultation.

Then either:

• Group work – Specialist skills required for working with children and young people in groups

Or/

• Parenting Groups: To be able to lead Parenting Groups in education settings and work alongside other education staff and parents e.g. transition parenting groups, parenting groups that are universally available for working with behavioural difficulties.

The Above interventions to be applied to working with:

• Attentional difficulties
• Affect dysregulation
• Self harm (please not group work is not indicated for self harm)
• Substance misuse
• Sleep

Lectures

Small group tutorials

Experiential activities

Role Play

Guided reading

Directed activities in NHS services

Summative

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

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.