RCPCH members - Trainees: £160
RCPCH members - Consultants and SAS doctors: £185
Non-RCPCH members: £200
Minimum 12 delegates. Maximum 20 delegates.
About this course
Adolescents and young adults often get bad press. Between the negative stereotypes or the perception that they are generally healthy and do not need additional help, we find that this age group is often under resourced and overlooked.
However, young people (aged 10–25) are going through a unique and exciting transitional life stage. They have specific health needs and often require adaptations to your practice to ensure services can remain accessible and supportive during this transitional period. Developing an understanding of the health needs of young people and how to support them provides benefits both for now and for our future population.
This two-session course - which takes place online over two consecutive mornings - is developed with, and co-delivered, by young people and experts in adolescent health. It provides a space to explore and understand what youth friendly health services from a young persons perspective and hear from young people about how they feel health inequalities for this age range can be addressed.
This is an interactive course and participants are asked to take part in small and whole group discussions. Group size is limited to 20 people to ensure that you have an opportunity to meet and share experience with colleagues and to interact with the young trainers. Participants are asked to keep cameras on and be in an environment where they are able to unmute and join in discussions.
The course includes a mixture of theory, practical guidance and group work on case studies. Young trainers guide the learning, drawing on lived experience help you explore how you can develop your practice in this area.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course you will:
- Know more about the unique physical and mental health needs of adolescent and young adults in particular how health inequalities are experienced by this age range and how key developments such as puberty and adolescent brain development interface with service provision
- Understand more about how to use a rights based framework within your service provision.
- Develop an understanding about how to develop trust and more open communication with this age range
- Explore how to manage risk when working with young people
Target audiences
- Paediatric trainees, SAS doctors and consultants in paediatrics
- Health professionals from other medical disciplines
- Education, social care and Voluntary sector staff working to support young people’s health
Course lead
AYPH courses are co-designed and delivered with young people who have lived experience of long term health conditions and / or who experience challenges accessing health services.
The AYPH young training team receive training and support to help them co-design and deliver quality training for professionals that enables participants to gain insights to a young service user perspective.
Please follow the link to AYPH website for more background about the education and training team.