Mental Health Awareness Training:
Mental health and mental illness: an overview.
Mental health awareness is increasingly important for a whole range of people, and that is why we have prepared this course. Available in 1-day and half-day versions, we bring this APT-Accredited course to your own organization and train a group of 6-15 people.
It covers mental health as it applies to adults, adolescents, and children so is designed to be suitable 'across the board'.
Executive Summary:
This course is designed to give a thorough overview of the key issues in mental health and mental illness. As such it covers
- the major diagnoses in mental illness - their symptoms and characteristics;
- the principles underlying helpful interactions with people when they are having mental health problems;
- an overview of how to maintain good mental health, and how to help others do so;
- an overview of the major treatment approaches for mental illness*
- how the material covered meshes with the workplace of the delegates*
* It is available in one-day and half-day versions. The difference between the two is that the half day version covers the topics in slightly less depth, and touches only very lightly on the last two bullets above.
Who should attend this course?
Everybody who sometimes comes into contact with people who may have mental health problems.
The course covers a great deal:
The major diagnoses in mental illness.
- Schizophrenia and psychoses.
- Bipolar disorder.
- Personality disorders, including Borderline Personality Disorder.
- Suicide awareness.
- Depression.
- Anxiety, including panic, OCD, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD, and phobias.
- Anger problems.
- ADHD in children and adults.
- Autism-spectrum disorders in children and adults.
- Dementia and acquired brain injury.
- Learning Difficulties / Intellectual Disability.
- Substance misuse.
Principles underlying helpful everyday interactions.
- Deep-brain interactions: "Attitude is everything".
- Good and bad Questions.
- Empathy and Validation.
- The concept of temporariness - and hope for the future.
- General principles you can use to judge your interaction.
An overview of the major treatment strategies* and maintaining mental health.
- Biological interventions including medication.
- Behavioral interventions, including behavioral activation.
- Approaches focusing on the surroundings / environment.
- Approaches focusing on interpersonal factors.
- Approaches focusing on the person's thinking style, including Mindfulness.
Winding down.
- Q and A session: how the content meshes with your own workplace*.
- Where to from here: planning any appropriate action*.
- The 3-teams Quiz*
- Registration and Feedback.
* It is available in one-day and half-day versions. The difference between the two is that the half day version has little or no coverage of the asterisked items.
What the course will do for you:
- You will have an overview of all the major diagnoses of mental illness.
- Your everyday interactions with people who are experiencing mental health problems are likely to be helpful ones.
- You will have an overview of the major approaches to maintaining mental health.
- You will have an overview of the major approaches to addressing mental illness*.
- The subjects of mental health and mental illness will be 'de-mystified' and shown to be the interesting topics of universal human relevance that they are.
- You will feel confident that you have a good working knowledge of mental health and mental illness.
What you receive as a result of attending this training:
All delegates are registered at APT as having attended the course, and receive a certificate to acknowledge their attendance, registration, and APT-Accreditation at the appropriate level. As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This accreditation is given weight by the fact of over 150,000 professionals having attended APT training.
Booking this training is easy.
Online Live and Exclusive course (for teams and organizations):
Online Live Courses typically take slightly less time than the face-to-face course on which it is based (because of less group discussion and group exercises) but they are live and pleasingly interactive. Click here to view prices.
Delegates can be anywhere that is conducive to concentrating, all together or separate, so long as they have access to a computer with a good internet connection. And as a manager, you have ‘guaranteed completion’: you only pay for delegates who successfully complete (minimum 15).
Option 2: Bring the course to your organization:
We bring the 1-day course to your organization for a fixed fee of $5,040 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) and up to 15 people can attend. Additional places can be purchased at $140 per person.
We bring the half-day course to your organization for a fixed fee of $1,800 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) and up to 15 people can attend. Additional places can be purchased at $85 per person.
To book, email office@aptcanada.com, or click the button:
Book this course for us to bring to you
Option 3: 'Train the Trainer':
If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organization, under license.
This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee (around 50%) each time you run it or your chosen modules.
To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button:
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Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments we have received.
"I rarely get anything out of the training that I attend. I can honestly say this course has been an epiphany. I think this is essential training for anybody working in a mental health setting."
"One of the best presented, organized and thought-out courses I have been on. I speak as a course participant but also as a trainer of 20 years experience."
"Absolutely the most impressive and useful training I have received in the 11 years working for the Trust."
