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Assessment and engagement skills are core to working in mental health settings. This module will focus on assessment and engagement in youth mental health, taking into account the unique needs of young people.

Who is this course for?

Clinicians working with young people with mental ill-health

What will you learn in this course?

• Define engagement and describe its importance in the youth mental health context
• Identify barriers to engagement that effect young people
• Understand the important interaction between engagement and assessment in youth mental health
• Identify a range of techniques to elicit information from and build rapport with young people
• Recognise how adolescent development may influence the assessment and engagement process
• Understand how to place a young person's difficulties into the context of their past and current areas of competence and difficulties
• Recognise the key factors in ensuring that the assessment process is socio-culturally appropriate and responsive.

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