Understanding Mental Health First Aid and Mental Health Advocacy in the Workplace

Course description

This course comprises of 3 mandatory units:Unit 1 - Exploring Mental HealthUnit 2 - Understand How to Support Individuals With Mental Ill HealthUnit 3 - Undertsand a Mentally Healthy Environment

Aimed at anyone wanting to increase their knowledge and understanding of mental ill health and how to support people experiencing mental distress.  This course is particularly helpful to individuals, managers and organisations wishing to assess and improve mental well being in the workplace or learning environment.Mental Health First aid is about providing initial care and support to someone in need.  This course will allow individuals to become aware of warning signs of a developing mental health problem, or even a mental health crisis and be able to offer appropriate support. This course looks at how the workplace can impact upon mental well-being and what individuals, their managers and their organisations can do to create a mentally healthy environment.

Learning outcome

This course allows learners to further their continuous professional development, which may improve career prospects.