Description

The course is comprised of animated videos to support learning, worksheets to complete, and downloadable activities to use with children and young people. You will also have access to a 64 page course handbook to download and keep.

The course takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

The course covers:

 

Section 1: Understanding low mood

Lesson 1: What is low mood?

Topic 1: What is low mood?

Topic 2: Do children and young people get depressed?

Topic 3: Other ways of describing low mood

 

Lesson 2: How might children and young people express low mood?

Topic 1: Behavioural

Topic 2: Cognitive

Topic 3: Physical

Topic 4: Social

 

Lesson 3: Why do children and young people experience low mood?

Topic 1: Loss

Topic 2: Unpleasant situations and events

Topic 3: Environment

Topic 4: Attachment seeking

Topic 5: Personality

Topic 6: Genetics and chemical changes

 

Lesson 4: Why do adults find it so difficult to see CYP sad?

Topic 1: Assumptions about childhood

Topic 2: The impact of other people’s sadness

Topic 3: Our own relationship with sadness

 

Section 2: Responding to low mood

Lesson 1: Managing your own responses

Topic 1: Thinking about your own relationship with sadness

Topic 2: Thinking about how your nervous system responds to sadness

Topic 3: Thinking about what you feel your responsibilities are

 

Lesson 2: Trying to change your perspective

Topic 1: Take a strengths-based approach

Topic 2: Decide on your non-negotiables

Topic 3: Accept the feeling

Topic 4: Ask yourself how the behaviour makes sense to the CYP

Topic 5: Try to remember it’s not about you

Topic 6: Think about emotional age, rather than chronological age

 

Lesson 3: Activities to use with children and young people

Topic 1: Identifying low mood

Topic 2: Understanding low mood

Topic 3: Expressing low mood

Topic 4: Regulating low mood