Mental Health Awareness

This course is for all health care professionals .In this Mental Health Awareness course, we aim to increase your understanding of common mental health conditions and of your own mental health, including how or when it might suffer, and what you can do about it.

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Chapter 1 : Introduction to Mental Health

What is mental health, why is mental health training important, myth-busting, breaking the stigma, the continuum of mental health, common mental health problems, factors behind poor mental health, COVID-19 as a factor, and your workplace’s responsibilities.

Chapter 2 : Understanding and Managing Mental Health Problems

Models of mental health and wellbeing, factors affecting mental health, types of mental health problems, stress and burnout, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and COVID-19 and mental health.

Chapter 3 : Diagnosis

Contacting a doctor, early diagnosis, how dementia is diagnosed, contacting a support group, living and work arrangements, driving, legal and financial affairs and treatment for dementia.

Chapter 4 : Supporting Yourself and Others

Tips for staying well, reflecting on your mental health, male mental health, seeking help and treatments available to you, telling your employer, returning to work after COVID-19, helping others, helping others in crisis, helping others during the pandemic, scenarios, and links to useful resources.

Chapter 5 : Patient centred Approaches

It’s important to focus on the person rather than the illness.Each person with dementia will change and react to their difficulties in a different way.It is very helpful to know about a person. This will help to think about what the person could be experiencing.Finding out all about a person’s life is very important.

LoveJoy

Instructor

TSoE skilled trainer who delivers this course yearly in line with current local policies and regulatory guidance mandatory training course modules are delivered at different levels to ensure that they are appropriate for the individual roles and responsibilities Level 1, Level 2 and level 3 Statutory training is the training that is required by law or where a statutory body has instructed organisations to provide that training on the basis of specific legislation