Mental Health First Aid

Level 3 Mental Health First Aid in the Workplace

 Objectives

To equip the Mental Health First Aider with a wide range of skills and knowledge so that he/she can competently recognise when someone is suffering. Upon
successful completion of this course, a Qualsafe approved Mental Health First Aid at Work certificate will be awarded (valid for 3 years).

Contents

This course is broken down in to 4 parts, with each part taking half a day to complete. All 4 parts are essential in gaining a useful and coherent understanding of mental health in the workplace.

Part 1:

• What is mental health?
• Turning abstract into concrete
• The fluidity of mental health
• The action plan
• Stress and managing it
• Listening
• Prejudice and discrimination

Part 2:

• Mental illness
• Depression
• Suicide
• Self-care

Part 3:

• Anxiety disorders
• Eating disorders
• Bipolar disorders
• Self-harm
• Psychosis

Part 4:

• Legislation
• Role of a mental health first aider
• Implementing a good mental health practice in the workplace
• Recovery
• Practice skills learned
• Assessment

This course contains a number of activities, tasks, exercises (option to opt-out) and assessments to be completed by the delegates enabling them to be an effective mental health first aider in the workplace.

To book this course call us on 01224 724008