Online Mental Health First Aid Open Course

Category: News & Written by simon On March-03-2021 13:26:39

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We will be holding an online Mental Health First Aid Course starting Monday 19th April, open to individuals and organisations on the following dates.

All dates below cover the whole course and you will need to attend all four. There are also activities you will need to complete online on your own between each of the four sessions.

Monday 19th April 10:00am – 12.00pm
Wednesday 21st April 10.00am – 12.00pm
Monday 26th April 10.00am – 12.00pm
Wednesday 28th April 10.00am – 12.00pm

Price per person is £150

To book a place please visit: 

https://mhfaengland.org/book-a-course/course-details/?id=014b86d0-8e7a-eb11-a812-000d3adc8aa2

Mental Health First Aid Online 

This online course qualifies you as a Mental Health First Aider, giving you:

• An in-depth understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect wellbeing


• Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues


• Confidence to step in, reassure and support a person in distress


• Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening


• Knowledge to help someone recover their health by guiding them to further support - whether that’s self-help resources, through their employer, the NHS, or a mix

Session 1

Individual learning (1 hour):

Introduction to the Online Mental Health First Aid course and the Online Learning Hub (course overview, safety procedure, attending live sessions, and completing individual learning activities)

• Activity 1: Why Mental Health First Aid?


• Activity 2: The Mental Health First Aid action plan


• Activity 3: What is mental health?


• Activity 4: Quiz: Impact of mental health


• Activity 5: Stress Container (completed after live session)


• Activity 6: Frame of Reference (completed after live session)

Live session (1 hour 45 minutes):

• Introduction to course functions


• Introduction to the course


• ALGEE and mental health introduction recap


• Stigma


• Risk and protective factors


• 10 minute break


• Frame of Reference


• The Mental Health Continuum


• Introduction to the Stress Container

SESSION TWO

Individual learning (2 hours):

• Activity 7: What is depression?


• Activity 8: Risk factors for depression


• Activity 9: Mental Health First Aid for depression


• Activity 10: Introduction to suicide

Live session (2 hours 20 minutes):

• Recap of individual learning on depression


• Prevalence of suicide


• Suicide, substance misuse and dual diagnosis


• Analyse the impact of suicidal feelings


• Recap of ALGEE and risk factors for suicide


• Explain Mental Health First Aid action plan 1 for suicide


• 10 minute break


• Explain non-judgemental listening, Empathy video


• Practice using ALGEE in case study scenarios


• Review of ALGEE for suicide and depression


• Self-care

SESSION THREE

Individual learning (2 hours):

• Activity 11: What is anxiety?


• ActivityActivity 12: Mental Health First Aid for anxiety


• ActivityActivity 13: What are eating disorders?


• ActivityActivity 14: Mental Health First Aid for eating disorders


• ActivityActivity 15: What is self-harm?


• ActivityActivity 16: Mental Health First Aid for self-harm


• ActivityActivity 17: What are personality disorders?

Live session (2 hours):

• Recap of individual learning on anxiety


• Recap of the five basic steps of ALGEE for anxiety


• Explain action 1 for anxiety


• How to support someone who is having a panic attack


• Explain crisis first aid


• Practice action 2: non-judgemental listening


• 10 minute break


• Practice applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan for anxiety


• Explain cognitive behavioural therapy


• Recap of eating disorders and self-harm


• Case study for eating disorders and self-harm


• Review ALGEE for eating disorders and self-harm

SESSION FOUR

Individual learning (2 hours):

• Activity 18: What are psychosis, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder?


• Activity 19: Risk factors for psychosis


• Activity 20: Mental Health First Aid for psychosis


• Activity 21: Helpful and unhelpful responses


• Workbook Activity 10: My action plan for using Mental Health First Aid (completed after live session)

Live session (1 hour 55 minutes):

• Review of individual learning on psychosis


• Explain the development of symptoms of psychosis


• Review the five steps of ALGEE for psychosis


• Group discussion about MHFA Australia psychosis video


• Case study activity using Mental Health First Aid action plan for psychosis

10 minute break

• Recovery


• Explore how to build a mentally healthy workplace


• Start action plan to use Mental Health First Aid


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