Examination arrangement

Course content

This topic provides knowledge about mental health in children and adolescents, and important prerequisites for further developing and improving children's and youth's ability to master life crises and psychosocial stresses. It provides an overview of common ailments and disorders in children, adolescents and young adults.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

- perspectives on childhood, youth and their upbringing, development history and identity formation

- child and adolescent mental health and conditions that promote good mental health and risk factors for the development of psychosocial problems

- Economy and living conditions among children and young people and social marginalization processes, poverty and social inequality in terms of health

- children of mentally ill parents, children living in families with violence and substance abuse, ill-treatment, ill-treatment and sexual abuse, war experiences and trauma

- classification and psychiatric diagnosis of children and adolescents - applications, challenges and academic dilemmas

- knowledge of rare disabilities and mental health

 

Skills:

- Explain perspectives on childhood and adolescent adultery, development history and identity history

- Explain the mental health and conditions of children and adolescents that promote good mental health and risk factors for the development of psychosocial problems

- Explain the economy and living conditions among children and young people and social marginalization processes, poverty and social inequality in terms of health

- can account for children of mentally ill parents, children living in families with violence and substance abuse, delinquency, maltreatment and sexual assault, war experiences and trauma

- Explain the classification and psychiatric diagnosis of children and adolescents - applications, challenges and academic dilemmas

- can account for rare disabilities and mental health

 

General competence:

- Identify societal conditions that affect the development of psychosocial difficulties and stresses

- Identify factors that affect the mental health of families and groups

- can develop and implement measures and projects of interdisciplinary nature that can improve the psychosocial functioning of children and young people and families

- can assess the possibilities and limitations of interdisciplinary development projects in terms of improvement of psychosocial difficulties and stresses

Learning methods and activities

Lecture, group work and self studies.

Compulsory assignments

• Obligatorisk arbeidskrav
• Obligatorisk arbeidskrav

Further on evaluation

Work requirements must be approved to pass the exam.

Deferred exam is terminated for candidates with a valid absence or the result "failed".

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) within a relevant subject area.
Direct work with children and young people in at least half position.

Course materials

The curriculum is published in Blackboard at the start of the course