How to Manage: Child Mental Health
This course will develop your skills and knowledge in effectively managing general mental health problems encountered in day-to-day clinics and increase your confidence in selecting appropriate interventions to support patients and their families.
What is the course about?
This course brings together a multi-professional team to equip you with practical guidance on how to manage general mental health problems you encounter in your day to day clinics, as well as, advice on selecting and implementing effective interventions.
With sessions on eating disorders, an acutely dysregulated child, assessment of para-suicide, self-harm or overdose, and non-organic illnesses presenting to general paediatrics, this is an essential course to develop your skills and confidence in managing mental health in general paediatrics.
Target Audience
Paediatric Trainees and Consultants
Learning Aims, Objectives and Outcomes:
Aim:
An introduction to the role of paediatricians in managing common mental health presentations.
The course will cover 4 broad areas of mental health presentations with 5 vertical themes throughout the day of:
1. Neurodivergence
2. Legal Frameworks
3. Biopsychosocial approach
4. Role of the Paediatrician
5. The behavioural cycle
Outcome:
By the end of this course, you will:
1. Feel confident in your role in managing common mental health presentations
2. Consider the impact of neuro divergence on managing mental health presentations
3. Be able to apply legal frameworks to managing mental health presentations.
Faculty Leads
Dr James Dearden
Dr James Dearden is a Consultant General Paediatrician in Torbay & South Devon, with subspecialisation in High Dependency Paediatrics. He has been the local Mental Health lead in Torbay since 2021, and over the last two years has taken on roles with Devon ICB and NHSE South West to support development and integration of services around children and young people's mental health. He has been responsible for establishing a clinical network linking physical and mental health teams across the South West, encouraging collaboration, shared working and greater advocacy for CYP mental health. He is passionate about the role paediatricians have to play in children's health, both physical and mental, and equipping the children's health workforce with the understanding, tools and capabilities to meet the defining need of this generation of young people.