The impact of parental mental health (safeguarding training course)

Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Course aims
  3. Course learning outcomes
  4. Times, dates and venues

Overview

This course is part of the safeguarding training programme. 

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Course aims

  • In the UK today one in four adults will experience a mental health problem within their lifetime, most commonly anxiety and depression
  • Many of these adults are also parents whose children are living at home, in fact mental health problems are more common in adults who have dependent children
  • When working with an adult with mental health problems practitioners need to consider how an adult illness impacts on their children or those children with whom they have regular contact

Course learning outcomes

  • Identify a range of adult mental health issues and their potential impact on parenting
  • Recognise the spectrum of parental mental health issues which may require support for the child and family, ranging from low levels of concern to child protection
  • Consider how to address the needs of children whose parents have mental health issues
  • Recognise the risks an individual with severe mental illness may pose to children

Times, dates and venues

Dates:

Delivered by: Phil Battista, CNTW.