Adolescent Health Course

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Adolescent Health Course

Learn to help teenagers lead healthier and more active lives.

This adolescent health course is designed for health professionals who work with young people. It is relevant to health visitors, nurses, general and family practitioners, and paediatricians globally.

Highly interactive training course on teen health

The high-quality content covers a variety of topics and teenage health problems, such as mental health, health promotion, self-harm, obesity, sexual health and communicating with young people.

It includes a wide range of interactive features, such as case studies and video clips, which provide invaluable insights into the views of young people and healthcare professionals on these key issues.

 

Developed in the UK and relevant globally

This adolescent health course has been written by subject-matter specialists from a broad range of disciplines.

It has been developed in the UK by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, NHS England elearning for healthcare and various other leading professional bodies.

 

Easy online access to training course material

The course content is available online so you can study in the workplace, at home or on the move and fit the elearning course around your busy professional life.

The training programme can be used in conjunction with the other programmes in the Healthy Child 0-18 Series: the Healthy Child Programme (0 to 5 years) and the Healthy School Child Programme (5 to 12 years).

 

What Will You Learn?

  • Covers wide-ranging issues, from mental health to communicating with young people
  • Highly interactive content, with video clips, case studies and questions

Course Content

Course Content
Adolescent Health Training Course This teen health online training course consists of a number of modules that are divided up into smaller training sessions. Each session typically takes around 20 to 30 minutes to complete. After an introduction to health and illness in adolescence, modules cover topics such as healthy development, legal framework, communication and consultation with young people, heath promotion and advocacy, long-term conditions and transitional care, concordance/adherence. Further modules cover the subjects of young people friendly services, sexual & reproductive health, self-harm and common mental health problems, substance us & misuse, overweight & underweight and finally a module or common medical conditions.