Youth Mental Health: Helping Young People with Anxiety (FutureLearn)

Anxiety is a common condition experienced by young people that can escalate to a point where it impacts on their general wellbeing and activities of daily living; brain development and performance at school or college. If untreated the risk of developing chronic and enduring mental health conditions increases, as well as the risks of deliberate self harm and suicide.

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to course and characteristics and causes of adolescent anxiety

Week 2: Anxiety as a biopsychosocial condition

Week 3: Assisting a young person experiencing abnormal anxiety states

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Identify anxiety disorders commonly experienced by adolescents

- Describe the aetiology (causes) of anxiety in young people

- Explain what ‘stigma’ is in relation to mental illness generally

- Identify between normal and abnormal anxiety states

- Explain how to assist a young person experiencing abnormal anxiety states

Who is the course for?

This course is for health professionals and teachers without specialist training in this area, it doesn’t require any prior experience or knowledge. It’s suitable for professionals doing continuous professional development.