Children’s Rights Impact Assessment Scotland

This webinar explored what infant mental health is and how practitioners can support infant mental health and wellbeing. This webinar is of interest to professionals working with infants and/or their caregivers across early learning and care services, maternal and child health and other family support services. It will be particularly useful for practitioners who are not specialists in infant mental health.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can get in the way of children’s potential, by impacting their relationships, sense of self and perceptions of the world around them. But poor outcomes are not inevitable. This resource explores how prevention and early intervention strategies, along with policies to better support families experiencing hardship, can help turn the tide on adversity.

This course is designed to strengthen these existing case formulation practices, by helping you to identify opportunities and strategies to increase children's participation in case formulation. These strategies can help you to work in ways that are collaborative and affirming of children’s strengths, skills, know-how and values, especially when it comes to navigating the difficult circumstances they are facing.