Promotion of children’s and young people’s mental healthLaajuus (5 cr)
Code: KH00ES44
Credits
5 op
Objective
• you understand the interactions of various factors connected to state of mental health among children and young people
• you know what mental health services there are available for children and young people
• you can identify the children’s and young people’s needs connected to mental health and are able to guide them to promotive services
• you understand the meaning of educational institution environments in the mental health work among children and young people and know how to promote mental health by developing these environments
• you know how to encounter children and young people and their guardians with respect and how to build up mental health promoting relationship with them
Content
- what factors are connected to mental health among children and young people?
- what kind of mental health promoting services there are for children and young people?
- what kind of interactions factors of mental health have to each other?
- how can I promote the mental health of children and young people in the environments of educational institutions?
- how can I identify the children’s and young people’s needs connected to mental health?
- how I encounter a child/youngster in order to promote her/his mental health by our interaction style?
- how I build up respective interaction with the guardians of the child/youngster
Enrollment
08.04.2024 - 21.04.2024
Timing
09.09.2024 - 31.12.2024
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Department of Social Services and Health Care
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Social Services, school wellbeing
Teachers
- Hannele Pulkamo
- Niina Pietikäinen
Groups
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KHSA23SPSocial Services, school wellbeing, full-time studies
Objective
• you understand the interactions of various factors connected to state of mental health among children and young people
• you know what mental health services there are available for children and young people
• you can identify the children’s and young people’s needs connected to mental health and are able to guide them to promotive services
• you understand the meaning of educational institution environments in the mental health work among children and young people and know how to promote mental health by developing these environments
• you know how to encounter children and young people and their guardians with respect and how to build up mental health promoting relationship with them
Content
- what factors are connected to mental health among children and young people?
- what kind of mental health promoting services there are for children and young people?
- what kind of interactions factors of mental health have to each other?
- how can I promote the mental health of children and young people in the environments of educational institutions?
- how can I identify the children’s and young people’s needs connected to mental health?
- how I encounter a child/youngster in order to promote her/his mental health by our interaction style?
- how I build up respective interaction with the guardians of the child/youngster
Evaluation scale
1-5