Course description
Early Intervention Work with Children, Parents and Carers
This module aims to:
- Develop your knowledge and skills in relation to supporting children, their families and carers, in order to maximise the life chances of children and young people and improve outcomes.
- Explorethe factors that affect health and social capital and the interventions that can maximise them.
- Build on existing knowledge to link theories to practice to improve patient safety.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 6
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, youwill be able to:
- Critically analyse the concepts of health gain and social capital and the factors that either contribute to or militate against them.
- Critically evaluate the impact of parental mental health on infant and child mental health.
- Analyse the quality of relationships and their impact on the neurological and emotional development of the child.
- Discuss and evaluate the concept of early intervention in relation to supporting children and young people and their familiesand carers, in order to maximise their health chances.
- Analyse current policy, provision and practice in relation to early interventions.
Training Course Content
Indicative module content includes:
- Cornerstones of good practice, including skills development, coaching and relationship building
- Diversity and inclusivity
- Maternal/paternal and infant mental health
- Early interventions
- Attachment and bonding
- Neuroscience
- Vulnerability factors
- Inequalities in health
- Social capital
- Enhanced needs, special needs, definitions, policy and practice
- Current policy, practice and provision in relation to early interventions
- Roles and partnerships in early intervention work
- Inter-professional working.
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Lecture
- Debate
- Group work
- Student presentation
- Self-directed learning
- Experiential learning
- Small group workshops
- Discussion
- Reflective learning
- Tutorials
- Expert speakers.