Mental Health Foundations
One comprehensive starting point — what mental health means in childhood, ordinary struggle versus something more, anxiety and low mood, talking about feelings, difficult disclosures, getting help, protective factors at home, and living alongside a struggling child for the long haul.
Inside this course
Most parents arrive at questions about their child's mental health carrying two unhelpful ideas at once: that mental health means the absence of difficult feelings, and that any real difficulty is a verdict on their parenting. Both are wrong, and both get in the way of seeing clearly. This Foundations course begins with the lens: mental health is a capacity — to feel hard things, recover and keep developing — and distress in childhood has a developmental accent, showing up as stomach aches and tantrums at five, irritability and concealment at ten, and behaviour at fifteen that overlaps almost perfectly with ordinary adolescence.
You'll finish with
- See mental health as a capacity rather than the absence of difficult feelings, and read distress accurately at every age
- Apply the three clinical markers — persistence, pervasiveness and impairment — to decide when a closer look is warranted
- Recognise anxiety as an avoidance engine and low mood as a withdrawal spiral, and stop the loving responses that maintain each
Course modules
8 modules, revealed inside the course
The full module structure, lessons and printable resources open once you purchase this course. Enrol or sign in to view the course outline.
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Enrol to access the complete course — every written lesson, the case scenarios and all the printable resources. A one-time purchase, yours to keep.
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