Course features

This course is aimed at health care professionals in low intensity Children and Adolescent Mental Health settings. They should be supervisors (or working towards this role) of Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP), or of Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs) or of Senior Wellbeing Practtioners (SWPs) in mental health support teams or community wellbeing teams. This course is also suitable for professionals who might have a professional background as social workers, occupational therapists, creative therapists, nurses who are working with mild to moderate needs using a CBT informed approach and supervising (or working towards) CWP/EMHP/SWP colleagues.  

This course will teach the following:

• To integrate into practice a comprehensive understanding of low intensity assessment, case conceptualisation and signposting for additional case complexity
• To utilise clinical judgment to devise low intensity interventions with individuals and groups that are trauma informed, culturally sensitive and take into account the individual presentation and formulation
• To flexibly and creatively deliver evidence based low intensity interventions for Children and Young People and their families with OCD, social anxiety, panic, self-harm and other conditions covered in the national curriculum. Collaborate with carers/families and the wider system to intervene indirectly as required to better meet their needs
• To critically appraise the ongoing success of interventions utilising routine outcome measures and feedback
• To enhance self-reflective skills and use of clinical support networks to improve clinical practice
• Ability to use active problem solving with difficulties in clinical practice "

Our expertise

King's College London is the first university to offer this course. The course will be taught by a team of children mental health experts who are already teaching on a suite of postgraduate programmes commissioned by NHS England. Some of our teachers are external and are national and international experts in these approaches and have developed manualised approaches for the low intensity interventions and actively involved in the evaluation of these. We have an expert team to deliver this programme effectively.

Entry requirements

This is for health care professionals (non CWP/EMHPs) who are supervisors of practitioners offering low intensity interventions in mental health support teams or community well being teams.

This course is not for people who are already CWP/EMHPs as they should take the Senior Wellbeing Practice Diploma.