If you spend your days around young people, this is a solid grounding. You cover youth mental health, common conditions, teenage development, and the family and school pressures behind them. Nothing is timetabled, and there are no exams.
The conditions that show up in young people.
The pressures that shape how a child copes.
Practical support, and where to send them next.
Youth services, schools and family teams all need this grounding. The college suggests further training or a placement to build hands on practice.
Support young people through a rough stretch.
Back up a wellbeing team in a school or centre.
Meet a teenager weekly and stay in their corner.
Help a family find and use the right services.
Roles where these skills help, not promised outcomes. Counselling roles in Ireland need approved study and registration.
The modules move from the big picture to the support a young person needs.
Three reasons people pick this one.
Written around children and teenagers, not adults.
Mood, behaviour, development and psychotic conditions.
A year with the International Association for Counselling.
Plus a year of association membership
Issued by the college when you finish.
A year with the International Association for Counselling.
Job listings, CV review and interview prep.
Your own children, a class, or a caseload.
An advisor is straight about what this is not.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Enrol and open the first module.
Not at all. Parents and carers take it too.
Six months of access, and around eighty hours of material.
None, ever. You move through the modules at your own speed.
Youth mental health, conduct and mood conditions, development, and ways to help.
It carries ICOES and CPD Standards Office accreditation. It is not a QQI course and not a national award. It is an introduction to youth mental health.
You will understand far more of what you are seeing. It does not lead to registration as a counsellor or psychologist in Ireland. Support and mentoring roles are the usual next step.
That call sits with the institution you apply to. The college cannot promise credit or advanced standing.
A course advisor. Tell them your plan and ask if this fits.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy.
Its courses are accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office. They are not QQI awards.
Picture the teenager who finally talks because you knew what to ask.