New Course: Childhood Mental Health & Trauma Informed Approaches

Children’s mental health is shaped by their relationships, experiences, and the inequalities they face. For anyone working with children, understanding these influences is essential to providing safe, compassionate and effective support. A new, 1-day course from Talking Life Training offers a clear, accessible foundation in childhood mental health and trauma informed practice, equipping staff with the confidence to respond to children’s needs in thoughtful, strengths based ways.

🌱 Course focus

This practical introduction to children’s mental health, trauma, and resilience explores the key concepts that underpin children’s emotional wellbeing, including:

• Conditions that enable children to thrive and develop resilience
• Common childhood mental health difficulties such as anxiety, depression, PTSD and attachment related challenges
• How poverty, disability, identity and wider social inequalities intersect with mental health
• The impact of trauma, neglect, abuse and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on brain development, behaviour and emotional regulation
• The fundamentals of trauma informed practice, including building safety, trust and predictability
• How to create supportive environments that reduce stress and promote emotional regulation
• Strengthening protective factors such as relationships, community resources and children’s own strengths and agency
• Supporting children and families to develop sustainable coping strategies

👥 Who the course is for

Designed for anyone working with children, including:

• Children’s social care practitioners
• Early help and family support teams
• Education and early years staff
• Youth and community workers
• Foster carers, residential staff and safeguarding practitioners

🎓 Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the conditions that support healthy development
• Explain how common mental health difficulties may present in children
• Identify psychological, social and environmental factors contributing to mental health challenges
• Describe how trauma and adversity influence behaviour and emotional regulation
• Apply trauma informed principles to everyday interactions
• Create safe, predictable and supportive environments
• Strengthen protective factors around children and families
• Support children and families to identify and develop coping strategies

🛠 Delivery options

• One day course
• Available in house or online
• Delivered face to face, virtually, or as a blended programme
• Content can be tailored to local priorities, service context and workforce needs

🛠 Actions

View the full course outline here

Did you know that you can get a 5% discount on your next training when a colleague you refer makes a booking? We can also issue invoices before 31st March, 2026 for training taking place in the next financial year beginning April.

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