Graduate Certificate in Managing Youth Self-Harm and Suicide

This subject introduces some of the key principles and approaches of working with young people in relation to mental health. The subject will also introduce the key theories and research that underlie contemporary understandings of young people and mental health.

Content includes:-

• The need for service reform in the mental health sector
• Understanding youth and mental health
• The clinical staging model of mental ill-health
• Aetiological models of youth mental ill-health
• Impact of mental ill-health on young people
• Early intervention in youth mental health
• Barriers and enablers in youth mental health
• Youth-friendly service delivery

This subject examines some of the key foundations of youth mental health clinical practice, including assessment, engagement and case formulation. It explores a variety of frameworks and provides an overview of the concept of youth friendliness, which is pervasive throughout all youth mental health clinical practice and service level delivery.

The content includes:

• Fundamental principles and strategies underlying youth friendly practice
• Key assessment frameworks for young people
• Introduction to conducting risk assessments
• Introduction to case formulation and shared explanatory models
• Assessing the needs of families and primary carers
• Ethical and legal considerations in youth mental health practice

This subject will be provide a comprehensive, foundational overview of early psychosis in young people. Course content includes:

• The key features and phases of early psychosis in young people
• Genetic, environmental and neurobiological vulnerabilities to psychosis
• Engagement, assessment and management of young people at-risk of early psychosis
• Best-practice biological and psychosocial interventions for first episode psychosis
• The recovery process for young people who have experienced acute psychosis
• Early psychosis service models

This subject introduces the student to a range of key, best-practice psychosocial interventions in early psychosis, with the view that students can integrate these interventions into their own clinical practice. Course content includes:-

• Case formulation
• Psycho-education in early psychosis
• Crisis intervention and risk management in early psychosis
• Functional recovery in early psychosis
• Family work in early psychosis
• Psychological interventions in early psychosis