Promotion of mental health in childhood and youthLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You understand the interactions of various factors connected to the state of children's and young people's mental health.

You know what mental health services are available for children and young people.

You can identify children’s and young people’s needs connected to mental health and are able to guide them to find services that promote mental health.

You understand the meaning of school 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 establish relationships that promote mental health with them.

Content

What factors are connected to children's and young people's mental health?

What kind of are there for promoting children's and young people's mental health?

What kind of interactions are there between factors affecting mental health?

How can I promote children's and young people's mental health in school environments?

How can I identify children’s and young people’s needs connected to mental health?

How do I encounter children and/or young people in such and interactive way that it promotes their mental health?

How do I establish respective interaction with children's and/or young people's guardians?

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources of the field. 
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. use the key models and methods of the professional field.
e. work as team members in a goal-oriented way.
f. justify their own actions according to the ethical principles of the professional field.