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Understanding Child Mental Health

Emerging Minds

Understanding Child Mental Health provides essential knowledge about children's mental health, helping educators to understand the signs, causes, and impacts of mental health issues in children while offering strategies for supporting their wellbeing.

  • Online

Pricing: Free

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Product type: Professional learning

Contact details

Emerging Minds
ABN: 87 093 479 022

https://learning.emergingminds.com.au/course/understanding-child-mental-health

info@emergingminds.com.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

Curriculum alignment

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2), Intensive individualised approach (Tier 3)

Context: School or centre-based, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC), Home-schooling, E-schools

Main beneficiaries: Early learning, Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

Delivery style: Student, self-directed

Aims & approach

This course is a foundation for all of Emerging Minds' e-learning courses.

It provides educators with key understandings that will support their engagement with any other Emerging Mind resources.

Throughout this 1 hour course, educators will be invited to consider the foundational importance of a child's relationship with their parent or caregiver, and to reflect on the factors that can affect this relationship.

Implementation support

  • Implementation training webinars or modules

Evidence

This course draws on the latest research, clinical insights, and the lived experience of children and families. In-course learning questions (pre/post) demonstrate the learning growth of participants in this course.