Mental Health Awareness Training
Mental Health Awareness Training provides participants with an understanding of what mental health is and how they can look after their own mental health and support others.
The course covers the signs that may indicate someone is struggling with their mental health, the risk factors for mental ill-health and how these risks can be counterbalanced through practical strategies.
People struggling with mental health challenges often do not seek support because of the stigma. The course addresses the stigma by emphasising that most people face mental health issues at some point in their lives, whether they are impacted personally or through someone close to them.
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Mental Health Awareness Training
Mental Health Awareness Training online provides an understanding of what mental health is, how to offer the right support to others and strategies to protect your own mental health.
£25
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What are the benefits of our mental health awareness training course?
- Builds empathy for those facing mental health challenges so everyone can thrive.
- Provides practical strategies to help participants look after their own mental wellbeing and offer effective and appropriate support to others.
- IOSH Approved, CPD Certified and SCORM Compliant training.
- Online course can be completed at the employee’s own pace.
- Interactive training to keep participants engaged throughout.
- Multiple choice quizzes so participants can check their understanding as they go.
- Summaries at the end of each section to enhance understanding.
Course duration
Mental health awareness online training takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
Who should take this course?
Everybody can benefit from mental health training because it affects most people at some point in their lives.
This online course builds understanding of mental health issues so participants can look after their own mental wellbeing and offer practical support to others.
Course accreditations
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Our accreditations mean you can be confident that we deliver high-quality, effective eLearning that forms part of a professional development programme.
We pride ourselves on our extensive certification and accreditation. We’re CPD Certified and this course is SCORM compliant which means it can be integrated as part of your existing LMS or used as part of our SHINE learning management system.
Learn more about our health and safety accreditations.
Mental Health Awareness FAQs
What happens if mental health issues go untreated?
Untreated mental health issues can worsen over time, leading to severe physical health problems, decreased quality of life, and substance abuse. These issues strain relationships, cause social isolation, and can result in job loss and financial instability.
Long-term consequences include chronic conditions and an increased risk of suicide, while the broader societal impact includes a higher burden on the healthcare system and public safety concerns.
Early intervention, treatment, and reducing stigma are crucial to improving outcomes and mitigating these negative effects.
Is anxiety a mental illness?
If anxiety is out of proportion to a situation and it affects someone’s quality of life over a long period of time, then it is a mental illness.
What is ‘burnout’?
Burnout is when someone is mentally and physically exhausted from the pressures in their life. Burnout can be down to work, personal issues or a combination of both.
Can someone with a mental illness recover?
When someone is diagnosed with a mental illness their symptoms can be relieved by following an individual treatment plan so they can live life the way they would like to.
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Assessment
At the end of the mental health awareness course there are 10 multiple choice questions to answer, and the pass mark is 80%.
Certificate
If you complete the mental health awareness course on SHINE, you will receive a certificate on successful completion of the course which is downloadable as a PDF file.
Course aims
By the end of the mental health awareness course participants will:
- Understand the difference between mental health issues and mental illnesses.
- Be able to use the mental health continuum to assess their own mental health.
- Know the risk factors for mental health issues and how these can be counterbalanced.
- Be able to identify the signs someone is struggling with their mental health.
- Know some practical strategies to improve their own mental health and support other people facing mental health challenges.
Course Overview
1. What is mental health?
How the World Health Organisation (WHO) defines mental health and the difference between mental health issues and mental illnesses.
2. Categories of mental illness
Types of mental illnesses with definitions and examples of behaviours.
3. The mental health continuum
What the mental health continuum is and how we can use it to measure our own mental health at any given time.
How someone with a diagnosed mental illness can have positive mental health, and someone without a diagnosed mental illness can struggle with mental health.
4. Protective and risk factors
Factors both within and outside our control that increase the risk of mental health issues and what can be done to counterbalance them.
5. Stigma
Underscoring that most people struggle with mental health at some point during their lives which is why the stigma should be challenged.
How to overcome stigma to ensure mental health issues are addressed and managed.
6. Work and mental health
How work is generally positive for mental health but can have a negative impact.
How workplace stress can contribute to mental health issues. What causes workplace stress and what to do about it. How the HSE’s Management Standards can support employers.
7. 5 ways to wellbeing
Exploring the 5 ways to wellbeing: connect, learn, active, notice, give (CLANG). Practical actions people can take to support their own wellbeing under each of these 5 categories.
A downloadable action plan is included so participants can record their own small goals towards enhancing wellbeing.
8. How to help
Identifying the signs someone might be struggling with their mental health. Practical ways to support someone – how to start a conversation, keep a conversation flowing and encourage them to identify what they need to do to help themselves.
9. Conversation tips
Tips to ensure conversation with someone experiencing a mental health issue is constructive and supportive, including asking open questions, not interrogating the person, listening rather than interrupting and the power of a supportive silence.
10. What if…?
Practical ways to help someone who says they are fine or who doesn’t want to talk.
11. Managing strong emotions
Why a person might have a strong emotional reaction when discussing their mental health. How to protect your own safety by setting boundaries if someone becomes angry. The importance of listening and not challenging their emotions.
12. Suicide
How to approach a conversation to find out whether someone is considering suicide or self-harm, and how to support them in these circumstances.
13. Who can help
A list of the types of professionals who can support mental health, and how to identify what kind of support is required.
Course screenshots
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How is it delivered?
Mental health awareness training is delivered online or through a computer network to each trainee at their desktop, laptop or mobile device.
We can also provide the course to be integrated into a SCORM compliant LMS.
Training can be completed at the employee’s own pace by “bookmarking” and recording progress and returning to the training later.
SHINE – compliance record keeping
The Praxis42 Digital Platform SHINE is our advanced eLearning management system and helps organisations deliver effective online learning for their employees.
A cost-effective tool for compliance record-keeping, SHINE allows you to view and manage employee training records easily. Individual training certificates can be printed as proof of compliance for audits or visits from enforcing agencies.
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