Infant Mental Health
Description
The purpose of this course is to gain an understanding of how by protecting and promoting babies' emotional wellbeing and development this can improve infant mental health and wellbeing in the early years.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the training, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of what we mean by infant mental health.
- Outline how the wellbeing in early years is strongly linked to later outcomes.
- Identify how supporting infant mental health can prevent emotional disturbances from taking root and escalating into mental health problems.
- State how infant mental health is linked to the emotional wellbeing and development of children in the earliest years of life.
- Explore how children experience their world as an environment of relationships, and these relationships affect virtually all aspects of their development.