Youth mental health care and substance abuse care (5 cr)
Code: AV00EM84-3001
General information
Timing
01.09.2021 - 31.12.2021
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
5 op
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Unit
Open UAS and Continuing Education
Campus
Ecampus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
- Niina Luukkonen
Teacher in charge
Niina Luukkonen
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
Evaluation scale
1-5