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Youth mental health care and substance abuse care (on-line course) (5 cr)

Code: SH00AD08-3008

General information


Enrollment

12.04.2021 - 25.04.2021

Timing

01.08.2021 - 31.12.2021

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Ecampus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Anni Issakainen
  • 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
• On-line discussion forums on topics chosen by students

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

Mental health care and substance abuse care (5 ECTS credits)