Youth mental health care and substance abuse careLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

• You improve your competence with regards to the prevention and treatment of adolescents' substance abuse and mental health issues
• You improve your multi-disciplinary cooperation skills
• You become familiar with the social means of promoting adolescents' wellbeing, and various networks and the third sector

Content

• Orientation concerning the module's structure and methods of completion
• Preventive mental health care
• Adolescents' well-being indicators and plans
• Organizations that promote adolescents' well-being
• Evidence-based work in adolescents' mental health and substance abuse care
• Adolescents' psychiatric, psychological and neuro-psychological assessment and treatment
• Adolescent psychiatry
• Adolescents as customers of child protection