Parental Mental Health and the Impact on Children

Course Outline 

This course aims to increase your knowledge of engaging with children and their parents who has a mental illness. You will learn three ways in which children can be affected by parental mental illness.   

Learning Outcomes

• How to engage with a parent with mental ill health
• Looking at THRIVE model
• Impact on parental mental distress on children from 0 to 17 years’ old
• Starting a conversation with children about a parental mental health issue
• Ten tips for communicating with children
• Starting a conversation with parents
• Inter-agency working
• Some key definitions and specific to mental distress
• Children’s data affected by key parental issues/parental vulnerability in Havering