Trauma and mental wellbeing in young people EDUC51063

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Education
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 1
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course will address current and emerging concerns around the mental health and wellbeing of young people today. In considering theories behind children's development, as well as how trauma and loss affect their growing brains we will add to understanding of their behaviour in educational and social contexts. Following the Covid pandemic as parents, carers, teachers struggle to meet the challenges of supporting a covid-impacted youth, this course will prioritise understanding and enhancing their mental wellbeing, exploring relevant theories and research and suggesting how these can be put into practice.  Students on the course will also be taught basic evaluation skills in order to assess the impact of measures they may implement.

Timetable

None.

This is an online course consisting of asynchronous learning. The course will run over 10 weeks with approximately 10 hours notional learning hours per week.

Requirements of Entry

Please refer to the current postgraduate prospectus at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/

The course is aimed at those with experience of studying up to level 10. A related MOOC has been developed as an alternative for those without this experience.

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

There will be two parts to the summative assessment: an academic poster in which the students will be asked to summarise and critically evaluate key concepts from the course and an assignment in which students will be asked to explain how they will apply or hypothetically apply the learning they've done on the course to their professional and/or personal settings.

Course Aims

The aim of this course is to introduce students to key concepts and theories around attachment and relationships, child/youth development, trauma and resilience and examine how these relate to child mental wellbeing in the post-Covid era. The course aims to enhance understanding of these so that appropriate interventions and preventative measures may be designed and implemented in educational and social contexts.  Basic evaluation skills will be examined so that participants can gauge the impact of their interventions.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Identify what is meant by trauma and how this may impact on the developing brain of the child

2. Explain how key theories in child development enhance our understanding of children's behaviour and wellbeing

3. Explore how we can intervene to support children/young people's mental wellbeing

4. Consider how we may assess the impact of interventions

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.