Family, Societal and Cultural Influences on Children's Mental Wellbeing Anglia Ruskin University

Overview

The need to understand children holistically, taking into account cultural beliefs, values and attitudes, and social context, is gaining importance due to the complexity of mental health problems and the increased need for services for different ethnic groups and for children whose lives have changed due to civil unrest.

What you will learn

This Family, Societal and Cultural Influences on Children's Mental Wellbeing module at Anglia Ruskin University will address a number of issues related to child and adolescent mental wellbeing and society, including health promotion. It will explore the way in which mental illness is portrayed through the media and the impact this can have on interpretations of mental health and mental illness within a given society.

This includes examining how mental health is represented in the news, on social media and global technology; sexuality will also be explored. We'll also examine the delivery of culturally appropriate health care, and how the knowledge gained can be applied to current or future practice.