Practice strategies for working with children
Welcome to the Practice strategies for working with children learning pathway. This suite of courses examines practice skills and strategies that help support collaborative engagements with children and their families.
It is designed for practitioners who work with children and their families to implement mental health interventions. This includes accredited mental health professionals, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, paediatricians, mental health social workers, mental health nurses, mental health speech therapists and mental health occupational therapists.
Learning outcomes
As you progress through this learning pathway you will build your understanding and skills across a range of key areas, including:
- the use of daily functional assessment, to help you consider a 'whole child' approach to your work
- strengthening case formulation practices that reflect your interest in children’s participation
- drawing on a range of strategies for facilitating children’s participation in case formulation
- facilitating children’s participation when implementing and reviewing interventions to support their mental health and wellbeing; and
- drawing on a range of effective parent and child related strategies in the implementation phase including supporting parents to align actions and values, collaborative skill-building with children, noticing progress in setbacks, and future-proofing new skills.