Mental Health Awareness
Similarly to physical health, mental health is as important. It affects every aspect of our lives. Our thoughts, feelings and behaviours are dictated by how well we feel mentally. We all have ups and downs, but suffering from a mental illness for a length of time can change someone's life completely.
We need good mental health to flourish, look after ourselves and have good relationships with other people. Therefore, it is vital to meet the needs of people who have mental ill-health as well as protecting and promoting mental health. Part of this is recognising how important mental health and wellbeing is.
In this online course, we will look at understanding what mental health is. We identify some of the most common mental health problems and ways people can be treated and supported.
Who should take this online course?
This training course has been designed specifically for people who want to know more about Mental Health. Whilst it provides focus for people working in social care, it will also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know more about mental health.
We offer our courses for your LMS as SCORM files. Depending on the scope of what you need there may be a charge for this. Please connect to discuss it with us.
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Online Course Content
- 1. What is mental health?
- 2. Contributory factors and causes
- 3. The impact of mental illness on people's lives
- 4. Stigma and challenging myths surrounding mental health
- 5. Primary causes, signs, symptoms and effects of mental health conditions
- 6. What dual diagnosis means in relation to ASD and learning disability?
- 7. Available treatments and therapies
- 8. Ways that people can keep well
- 9. Capacity, consent, confidentiality and legislation
- 10. Monitoring, recording and reporting
Aims of the course
By the end of the training course, you will:
- Understand the definition of mental health
- Present facts and figures relating to mental health
- Understand the stigma surrounding mental health
- Identify different mental health conditions and illnesses
- Understand the causes, signs, symptoms and effects of different mental health conditions
- Understand what dual diagnosis is
- Know the range of treatments used to support people with mental health illness
- Identify the relevant legislation
- Understand the role of the social care worker when supporting a person with mental health challenges
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If you sign in to your account on Click before you take this training course, you will be able to change the accessibility settings to suit your needs. This includes translation into 100+ languages, some of which can also be read out loud to you.
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