Resources - Education and Training

• Being Seen and Heard, a training package providing practical and creative suggestions about working with children and parents. It contains clips of children, young people and their parents talking about their experiences of mental illness and how professional can work effectively with them. A CD-ROM of additional resources is enclosed with the video.
• Checklist for professionals coming into contact with the children of parents with mental health problems, Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Crossing Bridges, a training resource for working with mentally ill parents and their children. Commissioned by the Department of Health.
• It's a Carer's Life - this is a useful training tool produced by East London and the City Mental Health Trust.  It is helpful for staff already in the profession as well as highlighting some of the pitfalls of current practice for those who will be joining the ranks of mental health workers. To obtain a copy e-mail: Michelle.Garner@ELCMHT.NHS.UK
• Infant and Family Wellbeing - Warwick Medical School. This five day course (delivered over one year) is multidisciplinary and will be of interest health visitors, family and children's centre leads, midwives, community paediatricians, general practitioners, and social workers who wish to gain a greater depth of understanding about new methods of working with families during pregnancy and the first two years of life.
• In-sight - A holistic approach to recovery training for people with bipolar disorder or depression. Vital information for professionals, trainers, psychologists, managers and nurses who work with people with bipolar disorder or depression written by Dr Heather Johnson Straughan
• Poverty, Parenting and Social Exclusion - SCIE e-learning resource, bringing to life key aspects of poverty, parenting and social exclusion with particular reference to children and families.
• Professional Resource Pack, Pisces Carers' Support Team (1999). A resource pack for those working with families who are living with schizophrenia.
• Promoting Children's Mental Health Guidance (PDF file), Department for Education and Skills.
• Safeguarding Children e-Academy - The aim of the Safeguarding Children e-Academy is to improve the education and training process for those individuals and organisations who work with children.
• SCIE Research Briefing 24 - Experiences of children and young people caring for a parent with a mental health problem.
• Tavistock Institute Courses on child and adolescent mental health
• Postgraduate Certificate in Emotional Well-being in Children and Families: Interprofessional Practice
• Postgraduate Diploma/MA In Child and Adolescent Primary Mental Health Care Work
• Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma/MA in Child Protection and Complex Child Care
  Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Fostering and Adoption Studies
• The Bird and the Word, Mind education pack, materials for mental health education in secondary schools key stage 2 and 6 forms. Mind 2001.
• Young People's Introduction to Mental Health, Mind factsheet updated by Inger Hatloy, Mind Information Unit, January 2004.

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