The aims of this module are to enable students to adopt a structured approach to exploring the developing child and young adult.  It will deliver the knowledge and skills required to work competently with infants, children and young people to assess and meet their physical, social, and psychological health needs.

Learning Outcomes

• Critically analyse the impact of psycho-social and cultural factors on the developing infant, child, or young person.
• Demonstrate a critical and systematic understanding of approaches to holistic assessment and place-based interventions to support nurturing care and responsive parenting practices in optimising parent-child and young people relationships.
• Build on specialist knowledge of early emotional development, theories and models of attachment and the impact of positive and enduring parental-child relationships.
• Demonstrate effective and creative practice by the application of research and evidence-based practice, theories and principles of child development, nurturing care, and responsive parenting to specialist community public health nursing practice.
• Critically evaluate the importance of genetic and wider determinants of health in the nurturing care of children and young people including recognising how intergenerational trauma and adversity impact on childhood experience.
• Demonstrate effective and creative practice and the knowledge of referral processes for culturally safe, inclusive, and sensitive practice when dealing with complex, unpredictable, and unfamiliar situations in relation to child and young people’s health, growth, and development, in the home, school, and community environments.

Assessment

Case Study - 100%

This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

HSCPHHVPGD: PgDip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - Health Visiting

HSCPHSNPGD: PgDip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - School Nursing