PSY914 Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2 (Autumn 2020)

 On successful completion of the course, students will:

• have skills in initiating, organising and participating in assistance based on the needs and wishes of children and adolescents, and on their understanding of their own situation;
• have skills in systemising, documenting and communicating their own and others´ experienced-based knowledge;
• have an insight into research, evaluation and quality assurance related to mental health work especially emphasising the challenges a relational focus involve;
• have knowledge about mental problems in a relational perspective;
• have knowledge about inter-subjectivity and relational skills ¿ empathy, consideration and recognition.

• When life becomes difficult. Experiences from children, adolescents and families in sorrow and crises.
• Various risk factors related to developing psychosocial problems; children with mentally ill parents, children living with family violence/drug addiction, divorce, loneliness and victimisation, physical and mental neglect and mistreatment, experiences from war and traumas, religious fundamentalism.
• Child and adolescent mental health; historical development, current problems and future challenges.
• Being together, social interaction and dialogue through reflection and reflectional conversation/team.
• Power, assistance and offense in therapeutic relations.
• Developing individual communicative skills.