Audience

This is suitable for anyone who works directly or indirectly with teenagers.

Aims

• To increase your knowledge and understanding of adolescent mental health and to enable you to more effectively support and safeguard teenagers
• To be able to promote and support good mental health and wellbeing for teenagers

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course the participants should be able to:

• Apply insights gained into neurobiology and adolescent brain development in interactions with adolescents
• Demonstrate an understanding of adolescent risk-taking behaviour
• Identify the most common mental health problems in adolescents
• Promote and apply knowledge to support adolescents to develop resilience and know the importance of looking after their mental health