Childhood Adversity - The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Mental Health FutureLearn

Overview

We know half of all mental health conditions emerge before age fourteen, but there’s a need for a greater understanding of young people’s mental wellbeing.

On  Childhood Adversity - The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Mental Health at  FutureLearn , you’ll improve your understanding of how early adverse experiences can impact a young person’s mental health.

Key facts

• You’ll learn from world leaders in child development and hear from educators in disciplines like neuroscience and educational psychology.

• Using evidence-based research, you’ll examine the different ways childhood trauma can influence an individual’s psychological state, educational outcomes and social difficulties.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

• Reflect on how childhood maltreatment may impact on a child’s beliefs and behaviour towards others.

• Investigate how childhood maltreatment may change neurobiology and behaviour as a way to adapt to a hostile and unpredictable environment.

• Evaluate how childhood maltreatment may negatively impact on learning success and social development in school and how alternative provision can support young people.