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Engaging children learning pathway

Emerging Minds, February 2023

Related to Child and family, Child mental health, Child participation, Children's rights

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To support children’s mental health in your work, Emerging Minds has created the Engaging children learning pathway.

This practical and insightful pathway focuses on the core principles and practice skills that meaningfully and collaboratively engage children in your work together. If you work mostly with parents, but working with children is within the scope of your practice, then this pathway will give you a grounding in essential skills to effectively engage with children in a therapeutic setting. If you already work with children, this series will present you with the ideas, understandings, and the skills-in-action of experienced peers, to support and further your practice.

The following video introduces you to the Engaging children learning pathway of online courses.

Engaging with children

This course introduces you to the concept of engaging children as partners in practice, as a foundation for responding to child mental health concerns. Through this course, you will become familiar with the key values that underpin this concept and consider how these relate to the values and practice ethics practitioners bring to this area of their work. Learners will also be introduced to the key shifts in position and perspective required to effectively engage children as partners in practice.

Engaging children: Paving the way with parents

This course will assist you to develop a range of practice skills for working with parents who have concerns about their child’s mental health and wellbeing. These skills can contribute to engaging parents in the therapeutic process either prior to or in the early stages of working with children.

Engaging children: Good beginnings

This course will assist practitioners to develop a range of practice skills to draw on at the beginning of working with children in relation to their mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.

Engaging children: Rich pictures

This course will assist you to develop a range of practice skills for beginning to explore children’s strengths, skills, know-how, and values that can provide a foundation for reducing the impact of problems on their mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.

Engaging children: Shrinking problems

This course will assist you to develop a range of practice skills for working with children to understand the child’s perspective on the problems they are contending with, and begin to reduce their impact on the child’s mental health and wellbeing.

Engaging children: Ideas that stick

This course will assist you to develop a range of practice skills for exploring and expanding on children’s skills, know-how, values, creativity and interests to respond to the problem the child is facing.

Engaging children: Creative conclusions

This course will assist you to develop practice skills in creating opportunities for children to contribute to other families facing similar circumstances, as well as finishing their work with children and families.

To find out more, view our learning pathway overview on Emerging Minds Learning.

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