Understanding Child Mental Health Issues

Understanding Child Mental Health Issues is a three-day training designed to provide a basic understanding of the childhood mental health problems most commonly seen in child welfare settings. Children in the foster care system have much higher rates of mental health problems than do children in the general population. Participants will learn the causes, symptoms, prognosis, risks, treatments, and interventions for pediatric depression, juvenile bipolar disorder, attention deficit disorder,reactive attachment disorder, oppositional-defiant and conduct disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder.

To view this curriculum's table of contents and a list of the competencies it addresses, click here.

Understanding Child Mental Health Issues is currently offered free of charge to social workers from North Carolina departments of social services. To learn more about class times and registration for this course go to ncswLearn.org, a site where North Carolina's human services professionals can discover and engage in the learning opportunities provided by the NC Division of Social Services.

If you work in child welfare outside of North Carolina and you are interested in learning more about this curriculum, please contact the Resource Program's training coordinator, Amy Ramirez (t: 919/962-4365; e: aramirez@email.unc.edu).