Working with Children (WWC)
UPSKILL MICRO-CREDENTIAL
In this micro-credential you’ll learn how to work effectively with children as your client, which is uniquely rewarding and challenging. You’ll gain awareness of their developmental stages, including examining attachment styles and how to develop a child-centric approach to practice. You’ll learn how to work with other stakeholders, such as parents, caregivers, schools, etc. And you’ll learn to work with trauma and various health conditions (illness, disability, ASD, ADHD, learning difficulties, anxiety, etc).
Having children as your client brings with it a range of unique rewards and challenges. Their cognitive, emotional and physical development can occur at a rapid pace, all whilst trying to make sense of the world. This can lead them to be extremely vulnerable. Your counselling space needs to be appealing and you need to have a large repertoire of skills and activities to keep your clients engaged.
More often than not, you will also have to juggle multiple relationships, primarily with caregivers/parents and schools. It is important that you feel confident to properly set up expectations with each stakeholder. You also need to have a firm grasp of important ethical and legislative requirements when dealing with this age group, as you may find yourself working with children at risk of abuse, harm and neglect.
This Upskill will introduce you to important topics and theories related to working with children (aged 2-12) in a therapeutic setting, as well as to enrich your own skill set and confidence.
This course has been specifically designed for helping professionals, building on your existing knowledge, skills and practical experience, and helping you develop understanding, techniques and strategies to assist you as you continue your professional journey.
The Course includes a Study Guide, a Book of Readings, and recorded webinars, and is completed through passing a multiple-choice assessment. The Study Guide will take you through the core content of the course, including information on important topics and practical skills for working with children in a therapeutic setting. These are supported by selected readings (all contained within the Book of Readings), each of which has been selected to expand or elaborate upon a particular area of knowledge or skill.
Upon completion of this course, you will have learnt how to:
Understand the main developmental theories and frameworks
Learn how to quickly develop trust and rapport with young clients
Work effectively with other stakeholders of your client
Examine how trauma, abuse and neglect impacts children
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Why study an Upskill Micro-Credential
The world of work is changing. Upskilling, reskilling and agility is key to ensuring you or your organisation thrives in this ever changing, tech-focused decade. As the pace of change quickens, you and your workforce will need to learn new skills quickly to adapt and stay competitive.
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Our micro-credential courses fill and advance critical areas of knowledge. They are deep-dive explorations into important topic areas that’ll advance your capacity at work and personally.
Education specialists
We’re specialist educators in mental health with over 30-years’ experience. Our extensive experience provides us with a deep understanding of learner and market needs.
Extremely applicable
Our micro-credential courses are extremely applicable to people from all work and education backgrounds. Our courses cover diverse content areas relevant to an array of professional contexts.
Flexible learning
With so many demands on our time, it’s crucial that learning fits around our other commitments. That's why our micro-credential courses are self-paced and carefully designed to provide a rich, enjoyable learning experience.
Career boost
Our micro-credential courses fill and advance critical areas of knowledge. They are deep-dive explorations into important topic areas that’ll advance your capacity at work and personally.
Education specialists
We’re specialist educators in mental health with over 30-years’ experience. Our extensive experience provides us with a deep understanding of learner and market needs.
Extremely applicable
Our micro-credential courses are extremely applicable to people from all work and education backgrounds. Our courses cover diverse content areas relevant to an array of professional contexts.
Flexible learning
With so many demands on our time, it’s crucial that learning fits around our other commitments. That's why our micro-credential courses are self-paced and carefully designed to provide a rich, enjoyable learning experience.
Course Outline
This Course is divided into 4 Parts:
This section begins by examining attachment styles and how to develop a child-centric approach to practice. This includes how to develop rapport and appropriately discuss confidentiality. Time is also spent on some activities to help your client set goals, such as using media and drawings. It also looks at how to balance these goals with their caregivers’ expectations and universally accepted goals for therapy. Finally, some of the more practical aspects of working with this age group are discussed, like how to set up a child-friendly office.
It is rare that when working with children they will be your sole client. More often than not, you will be working with other people in conjunction, particularly with families, and in different settings such as schools, community organisations, hospitals and outreach centres. This section will cover the basis of where different child work can take place, how to engage with families, external referrals and governmental agencies. It also spends time looking at humanitarian and trauma settings as well as locked environments and foster homes.
An often overlooked part of working with children is how to work with those who may be facing health conditions. These conditions can include medical conditions such as an ongoing illness, permanent or temporary injuries, disabilities, palliative conditions and other physical conditions. It also covers psychological, developmental and mental health conditions such as ASD, ADHD, anxiety, learning disabilities, adjustment disorders and attachment disorders. This section aims to increase your confidence when working with children and the families of those children who face health conditions. It looks at the holistic impact a diagnosis can have, as well as how to help increase parental confidence and family cohesion.
When trauma occurs in children, the effects can be much different to those experienced by adults. This can come down to many reasons, including their developmental stage, understanding of the event and feelings associated, support from care givers and the nature of the event. Another aspect to remember is that children are more vulnerable than many adults, and adverse childhood experiences can have long lasting effects – even when children themselves may not remember the event. This section will cover trauma, abuse, harm and neglect; the effect it has on children; and how we can apply our knowledge of trauma to our practice.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, we deliver micro-credential courses in a range of areas. Our micro-credentials are between 20 and 40 hours of deep, rich, learning in specific areas.
All micro-credentials lead to a Digital Badge and Certificate of Attainment. They are self-paced and assessed through multiple-choice.
Some of our micro-credential courses include Creative and Critical Thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Working with Mental Health, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, and many more. You can find a catalogue of all courses here: AIPC Upskill
Our AIPC Upskill courses are all micro-credentials, which means you receive a Digital Badge and Certificate of Attainment upon successful completion.
Our micro-credentials are between 20 and 40 hours of deep, rich, learning in specific areas.
Some of our micro-credential courses include Creative and Critical Thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Working with Mental Health, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, and many more. You can find a catalogue of all courses here: AIPC Upskill
No, anyone can enrol in an AIPC Upskill micro-credential course.
Our Upskill micro-credential courses are self-paced and online. Each course includes a Study Guide, a Book of Readings, and recorded webinars; and are assessed through multiple-choice questions.
Our micro-credential courses are between 20 to 40 hours of learning.
Upskill micro-credential courses comprise multiple-choice, online assessments. For successful completion of an assessment, you are required to attain a minimum 65% pass rate. As the assessment is competency-based, if you don’t pass on your first try, you will have the opportunity to review and re-submit your answers (there are no re-attempt limits).
Upon completion of an Upskill micro-credential course you receive an electronic Certificate of Attainment and a Digital Badge. A Digital Badge is a form of Digital Credential (also known as ‘micro-credential’) that can be verified/validated online. A digital badge signals your achievement to potential employers and stakeholders, as they are able to verify your learning/skill acquisition outcomes in real-time, over the web.
A Digital Badge is a form of Digital Credential (also known as ‘micro-credential’) that can be verified/validated online. A digital badge signals your achievement to potential employers and stakeholders, as they are able to verify your learning/skill acquisition outcomes in real-time, over the web.
As Upskill micro-credential courses cover a variety of topics and are relevant to diverse professions, you should check the CPD requirements of your industry association.
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