This free two-week online course looks at how young people's emotional wellbeing has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Published on the FutureLearn platform, Supporting young people’s mental wellbeing post-COVID explores ways to support children and young people post pandemic.

The course brings together expertise and experience from across the University's School of Education to help address some of the most common issues around young people’s emotional wellbeing in this post-COVID era.

The course looks at the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of collective trauma and will consider what trauma may do to the developing brain as well as how isolation and loss may have impacted our young people.

It consists of short videos, readings, discussion tasks and opportunities to reflect. It will also provide theoretical background as well as some specific strategies and tools which may be used by teachers, social workers, parents and others to encourage children and young people to both recognise and discuss their emotions post pandemic.

This MOOC aims to support all teachers, regardless of the stage of their careers, but especially pre-service teachers across Initial Teacher Education programmes, in developing an understanding of the role of languages in and for education.

Find out more on the School of Education website

First published: 22 June 2022

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