Recognizing Early-Onset Mental Health Disorders in Children

“This course is an excellent overview of extremely complex student issues faced by all of us in the teaching profession today.”

As educators and parents we are often, by default, among the first people to notice that a child may be experiencing problems. Completion of this course results in a basic understanding of warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and adolescents which is useful to professional teaching and learning as it strengthens teacher-parent communications. Topics covered in this course:

• What is mental illness
• Parent stages
• Communications
• What teachers can do
• Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Conduct Disorder
• Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Anxiety
• Schizophrenia

This course provides an understanding of key warning signs for early-onset mental illness in children and adolescents.

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5 clock hours

$39

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