Children's Mental Health and Holistic Wellbeing: Improving Awareness and Practice

Children's Mental Health and Holistic Wellbeing: Improving Awareness and Practice 

 Aims & Objectives: 

This on-line workshop will enable participants to  recognise  emotional distress and deliberate self- harming  behaviours among children and  provide tools on how to respond appropriately and proportionately to risk

Learning Objectives:

This one day on-line workshop will help professionals to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of patterns and indicators of emotional issues and self-harming amongst children and methods to assess risk
• Describe the social ,cultural and emotional pressures and identity issues that result in children  being more vulnerable to emotional distress and self- harming behaviours
• Describe the significant role of internet and electronic communication in escalating emotional distress and self-harming behaviours
• Describe the meaning and significance of peer and sub-group pressure
• Introduce approaches professionals can use to build resilence in vulnerable children
• Describe proportionate and appropriate responses of professionals to particular incidents of self- harming behaviour and manage professional anxiety.
• Confidently use practical approaches in working with children to address behavioural issues and self- harming behaviours
• Demonstrate knowledge of national and local resources that can support vulnerable children and their families, including Early Help services

Target Group: Groups 3 – 5 Members of the workforce who work predominantly with children, young people and/or their parents/carers and who could potentially contribute to assessing, planning, intervening and reviewing the needs of a child and parenting capacity where there are safeguarding concerns

The Woolwich Centre is opposite the Town Hall, with the entrance on Wellington Street.

Train:           
Woolwich Arsenal

DLR:                    
Woolwich Arsenal

Tube:
North Greenwich then bus 422, 161, 472

Buses:                
249,178,161,180,177,291,122,386,380,53,51,54,244,422,96,472

Parking:
There is Multi-storey car parking in Calderwood St and Meter parking