Unit 03: Understand children and young people’s mental health concerns

This unit is part of the NCFE CACHE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health and has the following learning outcomes and assessment criteria:

1. Understand behaviour that is associated with mental health concerns in children and young people
   1. 1.1.Identify a range of behaviours that may indicate concerns about a child’s or young person’s mental health
   2. 1.2.Explain how a child or young person expresses how they are feeling through their behaviour
   3. 1.3.Describe harmful behaviour that children and young people may demonstrate as a way of coping with their feeeling through their behaviour
   4. 1.4.Explain the importance of early intervention when identifying behavioural concerns
2. Understand stress and anxiety in children and young people
   1. 2.1.Define the terms: stress, anxiety
   2. 2.2.Outline the relationship between resilience and stress
   3. 2.3.Describe possible causes of stress and anxiety for children and young people
   4. 2.4.Explain why stress can be both helpful and harmful.
   5. 2.5.Describe how to recognise signs of stress and anxiety in children and young people
3. Understand depression in children and young people
   1. 3.1.Define the term ‘depression’
   2. 3.2.Describe the difference between low mood and depression
   3. 3.3.Describe possible causes of depression for children and young people
   4. 3.4.Describe how to recognise signs that a child or young person could be depressed
   5. 3.5.Give examples of how depression may affect children and young people
4. Know about specific mental health conditions that children and young people may experience
   1. 4.1.Outline a range of other mental health conditions that may present in children and young people
   2. 4.2.Describe how to recognise a range of mental health conditions in children and young people
   3. 4.3.Describe how other mental health conditions may impact children and young people
   4. 4.4.Describe what might constitute a mental health ‘crisis’ or emergency