Assessment and engagement with infants and children
Want to enhance how you actively engage children in assessment protocols in a meaningful and beneficial way? This webinar presents strategies to support practitioners to consider the ‘whole child’ when working with infants and children, shifting the focus from labels, problems and conditions to supporting children’s hopes and goals through inclusive practice.
Learning Outcomes
- Outline practical strategies to consider a 'whole child' approach to your work with children so that their hopes and goals are prioritised rather than focusing on problems and conditions.
- Identify strategies that will help children and parents feel more engaged, and less anxious, regarding their engagement with you from the first possible opportunity.
- Discuss ways that assessment protocols can shift from seeing children as naïve and inarticulate about what is challenging in their lives, to respecting them as knowledgeable about both problems and potential solutions.
- Outline how to include parents in assessment in ways that honour their importance in their child’s life.
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Disclaimer
This webinar was produced in April 2022. The Mental Health Professionals’ Network’s webinars are produced for mental health professionals. The information is intended for suitably-experienced mental health professionals and does not replace clinical judgement and decision making. It is intended for use as a guide of a general nature only and may or may not be relevant to particular patients or circumstances. The subject matter is not exhaustive of any mental health conditions presented. Health professionals implementing any recommendations contained in the webinar must exercise their own independent skill or judgement or seek appropriate professional advice relevant to their own particular circumstances when so doing. Any information presented in the webinar recording was deemed relevant at the time of the live event and after this date has not been reviewed. No guarantee can be given that the information is free from error or omission. Accordingly, MHPN and its employees and agents shall have no liability (including without limitation liability by reason of negligence) to any users of the information contained in any MHPN webinar for any loss or damage (consequential or otherwise) cost or expense incurred or arising by reason of any person using or relying on the information contained in MHPN webinars and whether caused by reason of any error, negligent act, omission or misrepresentation of the information.