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Understanding Mental Health

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What the course covers:

  • What is mental health?
  • Factors that impact mental wellbeing
  • 12 points of wellness
  • Mental health myths
  • Stereotypes: social exclusion, bad press, assumptions, labelling and discrimination
  • Impact: psychological impacts, practical and financial, the impact of using services, social exclusion, positive impacts
  • Classification systems: DSM and ICD
  • Disorder groups: mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, cognitive disorders, substance related disorders, psychotic disorders
  • Classification of disorders
  • Symptoms of different conditions
  • Strengths and limitations of classification systems and alternative frameworks
  • Legislation: Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, National Health Service & Community Care Act
  • Early intervention and treatments & management of condition
  • Types of medication and therapies
  • Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
  • Recovery star
  • Helping people to manage symptoms
  • The role of the support worker

 

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