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Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Flexible

Transform caring into critical support. Northern’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health certificate will allow you to empower the youth in your care and help them transcend their challenges. Complete this one-year program at your own pace. And along the way, you will gain an understanding of common em

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Flexible

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Academic Year

2024 - 2025

Credential

College Certificate

Program Code Length

A219 (OL)

Flexible

Program Delivery

Flexible

DESCRIPTION

Transform caring into critical support. Northern’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health certificate will allow you to empower the youth in your care and help them transcend their challenges. Complete this one-year program at your own pace. And along the way, you will gain an understanding of common emotional and psychological issues that children and adolescents face, including Autism Spectrum Disorder. You will also develop an appreciation for the broader impact that poverty, discrimination, addiction, and violence have on individuals and society as a whole.

Working through case studies that promote self-care and cultural sensitivity, you will learn how to establish a strong foundation of trust and acceptance. You will also hone effective strategies for crisis intervention and conflict management. Finally, you will master critical techniques for working alongside parents and community agencies to achieve optimal outcomes. Individuals interested in studying part-time can be accommodated. Please contact the program assistant for more information about accommodations.

  • Students may register and take individual courses without meeting all program admission requirements if you do not plan to achieve the Ontario College Certificate.
  • In order to achieve the certificate students must have been accepted through OCAS prior to completing 50% of the courses.
  • Once registered into the program, students have five years to complete the program. Only courses taken within the five-year period may be applied towards the program certificate.

VOCATIONAL LEARNING OUTCOMES

  1. Identify characteristics, treatments, and causal factors of various emotional and psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.
  2. Manage aggressive behaviours in children and adolescents by using current crisis theory and employing effective intervention strategies.
  3. Employ evidence based intervention techniques when dealing with individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  4. Work collaboratively with children and adolescents who are taking psychotropic medications, their parents and other community agencies.
  5. Collaborate with other service providers and form professional relationships in order to enhance the quality of service for children, youth and families.
  6. Identify barriers faced by those working with social, cultural, language gender and sexual orientation differences as well as techniques to overcome these barriers.
  7. Use the concepts of case management, wraparound and treatment planning in the provision of client treatment.

Program Outline | March 2024

Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Flexible

  1. Utilize systems theory, attachment theory and knowledge of family dynamics when working with the schools and other community agencies.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

  • Mental Health Worker

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Source: https://www.northerncollege.ca/uploads/2025/08/Child-and-Adolescent-Mental-Health-2024.pdf