Description

Biological, Genetic, and Environmental Risk Indicators in Neurodevelopment and Child Mental Health in Pediatric Populations

Discover the key biological, genetic, and environmental risk factors that shape neurodevelopment and child mental health. Through evidence-based, practical, and integrative training, participants will acquire up-to-date tools for early detection and intervention in child and adolescent populations.

Course Objective

To identify, interpret, and integrate biological, genetic, and environmental indicators in order to improve early detection and promotion of child mental health.

Advancing your practice

Early neurodevelopment is a critical window where multiple factors—biological, genetic, and environmental—interact in complex and often interrelated ways. Understanding these dynamics is essential for both clinical practice and research aimed at safeguarding children’s mental health.

This training provides a multidimensional perspective, combining the latest evidence on how these factors influence development, with a focus on practical applications in real-world clinical and professional settings.

Key Learning Outcomes

• An integrated perspective of neurodevelopment that brings together biology, genetics, and environmental influences.

• An understanding of interactions such as epigenetic processes, where environmental factors modulate genetic expression.

• Tools for the early detection of children at risk of neurodevelopmental and/or mental health challenges.

• Cross-disciplinary insights, fostering collaboration among specialties including neuropediatrics, genetics, biology, and psychology.

Practical Applications

• Improving early detection of children at risk.

• Recognizing risk factors enables better interventions and healthier outcomes for children.

• Strengthening multidisciplinary connections across child-focused fields.

This course is part of EDAI School’s Specialized Programme in Neurodedelopment.

IMPORTANT: In the event that the minimum number of participants is not reached one week before the start of the course, registered attendees will be informed of the next steps