Mental Health Awareness
Mental Health Awareness
This will provide staff who are presented with behaviours they may be unfamiliar with, the knowledge and communication skills to effectively manage such situations. The focus of the course will be on identifying such behaviour and developing effective strategies to appropriately respond to them.
Course Overview
Each course is tailored to the needs of individual clients, but most course will include the following elements:
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- Understanding and recognising specific mental health disorders, including:
- Depression and Anxiety
- Bi-polar disorder
- The psychotic disorders
- Obsessive Compulsive disorders (e.g. hoarding); drug
- Alcohol misuse
- The dementias
- Common misconceptions around mental health issues and public biases
- Effective communication strategies for metal health disorders
- Understanding hallucinations, paranoia and delusions
- Vulnerability and Safeguarding – reporting and recording