Essential Skills
Understanding Mental Health
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
How this course can be completed:
- E-Learning: this course can be completed on our online learning platform, Bridge. We estimate the
e-learning course should take no longer than 2 hours to complete.
How to book on to a course:
Creative Support staff – You can find dates for this course on our webinar rota. To book on to a course, please complete an
application form
Participants from other organisations – Please complete this application form or contact James Perkins at:
james.perkins@creativesupport.co.uk // 07972 735 378
How to request a course for your service:
To request an additional course for your service, please complete the Extra Training Request Form. This is an online form. Once submitted, this will be sent to our training coordinators who will be in touch with more information.
