Supporting infants and toddlers
Emerging Minds
Related to
Perinatal infant mental health,
Parenting,
Infant mental health,
Parental illness or disability,
Parental mental illness
The ‘Supporting Infants and Toddlers’ e-learning course helps mental health workers to identify and intervene when their clients are parents who experience mental illness and have dependent children.
The course takes learners through the impact of mental illness on the family through the antenatal period, explains attachment and principles of sensitive communication with parents regarding the needs of their children. You will learn about parenting interventions and strategies to effectively support these families.
This course is for:
- Adult mental health workers and any other practitioners working with parents of young children where the parennt has a mental illness.
The course is estimated to take 1.5 to 2 hours to complete (including watching videos and completing the assessment). However, you can complete the course in several sessions at your own pace.