CAMH Skills for Practice - Level 6 - AC6731
Delivered as part of the Health and Social Practice Framework

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This module adopts a developmental and systemic approach to understanding Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) and the recommended interventions for range of emotional and behavioural problems which can arise in childhood and adolescence.  The module will support professionals, who work directly or indirectly with children and their families to critically understand and promote social, emotional, cognitive, behavioural and family development.  It will also support professionals, to work in collaboration with children, families and in partnership with other professionals and agencies in order to provide effective care for children at different stages in their development. The module is complementary to the modules AC6729 Prevention & Early Intervention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health & AC6730 Understanding Common Presenting Problems in Child and Adolescent Mental Health..

National and International statistics identify that the prevalence of CAMH disorders is 12.5%. Developing a multi-agency strategy for child and adolescent mental health skills development across all children’s agencies is one of the central aims of all contemporary children’s policy frameworks in particular Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP- IAPT) and the governments paper on Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision.

Ethical issues: anti-oppressive practice, confidentiality, and informed consent underpin the module content and the context of practice. 

Studying this module will enable you to develop a critical understanding of evidence based psychotherapeutic interventions with children, young people and their families. The skills based focus of the module will provide you with ideas and principles to inform your practice and will be informed by approaches such as.

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescence,
• Play therapy,
• Family Therapy
• Narrative Approaches
• Letter writing