This online course explains how parental mental health can affect a child’s safety, routines, attachment, and daily care. You’ll learn to recognise signs across common conditions, link observations to child-level risk, and choose proportionate actions. The approach is practical and trauma-aware: use clear language, record what matters, share information lawfully, and work confidently with partner agencies. Designed for beginners and busy practitioners, it focuses on real scenarios, simple tools, and decisions that stand up to audit.
Curriculum Overview:
Introduction: Course aims, duty of care, child-centred practice, and how to use the tools provided.
Parental Mental Health Basics: How anxiety, depression, psychosis, personality patterns, and eating/sleeping disorders present in family life.
Stress & Anxiety: Indicators, short stabilisation strategies, and impacts on parenting capacity.
Mood Disorders: Depression/bipolar, relapse signs, protective factors, and review cycles.
Psychosis (e.g., Schizophrenia): Positive/negative symptoms, risk mapping, crisis and calm plans.
Personality Patterns: Boundaries, consistency, and coordinating support networks.
Eating & Sleeping Disorders: Health risks, routines, safe signposting, and monitoring.
Self-Harm & Suicide: Warning signs, asking safely, immediate actions, and post-incident support.
Assessing Need & Providing Help: Thresholds, proportionate responses, consent vs vital interests, referral routes.
Recording & Information-Sharing: Chronologies, lawful sharing, audit-ready notes, and confidentiality.
Multi-Agency Working: Roles of health, education, and social care; meetings, decisions, and follow-up.
Building Relationships & Communication: Trauma-aware language, cultural humility, professional curiosity, and de-escalation.
Safety & Support Planning: Practical plans that balance support, supervision, and measurable review points.
Practitioner Wellbeing: Supervision, boundaries, reflective notes, and resilience.
Mock Exam: Formative knowledge check with feedback.
Final Exam: Summative CPD assessment and next steps for practice.