Mental Health Awareness Training for your team

Who is the course for?

This course is for anyone who'd like a better understanding of mental health conditions. It is specifically designed to raise awareness with your team members to give them the tools to recognise mental ill health in themselves and others.

How long does it last?

The course is a half-day session lasting for 3.5 hours. Sometimes timings may change slightly, if there are larger groups, attendees come late, discussions run longer, or there are unexpected interruptions. 

What are the course aims?

The course aims to:

• Raise awareness of mental health and how it can vary

• Outline different mental health problems

• Share tips for supporting people

• Explore how mental health and wellbeing interact with daily life

• Highlight stigma and discrimination, and how to tackle them

• Share tips on how to have supportive conversations about mental
  health

• Provide sources of support and information

What does the course cover?

This course covers:

• What mental health means to you

• What might contribute to a mental health problem – inequality in mental health support

• Stigma – what is stigma, how can stigma affect our mental health, how can we tackle stigma

• Stress – what is stress, stress versus pressure, managing stress, dealing with pressure, treating signs and symptoms of stress

• Introduction to mental health – what are mental health problems, mental health and mental wellbeing, what is depression, what causes depression, how might depression feel, what is anxiety, what causes anxiety, how might anxiety feel

• Mental health continued – schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, eating disorders, OCD

• Suicide – who can be at risk, how to help someone feeling suicidal, if someone needs help urgently, looking after yourself

• Empathy – what is empathy, why is it important, having conversations

• Mental health and the law – Mental Health Act 1983, Equality Act, protected characteristics, telling an employer about mental health problems

• Mental health and life – how common are mental health problems, resilience, 5 ways to wellbeing, sleep and mental health, money and mental health 

• Sources of support – sources of support for mental health at work, how Mind can help