Registration: 10:00 / start: 10:15 / end: 17:15
Trainer: Barbara Lewin
First Aid in Mental Health training helps you to identify and understand people who may be experiencing mental ill health and learn to respond. This training is delivered from an ELT perspective so you may better know how to care for students and staff and curate a better mental health culture in your English Language Teaching centre.
English UK members £245 / non-members £305
To access the member ticket, please enter your member number as the 'promo code' before purchasing tickets.
This training is for English Language Centres only.
Please ensure you register the person who will be attending the training and spell names how you would like them printed on the certificate. Attendees must bring ID with them to the training for the certificate to be issued.
What does the training cover?
- Understanding what mental health is, why people develop mental health conditions and the role of a first aider for mental health
- Know how to provide advice and practical support for a person presenting a mental health condition
- Know how to recognise and manage stress
- Know how to recognise a range of mental health conditions
- Understand the impact of substance abuse on mental health
- Understand the first aid action plan for mental health and be able to put it in to place
- Know how to implement a positive mental health culture in the workplace.
Learning outcomes
- Be able to define mental health and indicate an understanding of the stigma surrounding mental health
- Be able to identify factors that affect a person's mental health
- Outline the advice that should be provided to a person suffering from a suspected mental health condition
- Know when to contact the emergency services in respect of first aid in mental health
- Identify signs or stress and how it can be managed
- State signs and /or symptoms for the following mental health conditions: depression, anxiety, psychosis, eating disorders, suicide, self-harm
- State potential effects of alcohol and drug abuse on a person's mental health
- Understand the application of the first aid action plan for mental health
- Understand key factors in providing a positive mental health culture in the workplace.
Certification
This course is certificated by Nuco. Upon successful completion of the qualification assessment, learners will be awarded the Ofqual regulated Level 2 Award in First Aid for Mental Health (RQF)/Award in First Aid for Mental Health at SCQF Level 5. This qualification is valid for three years from the date of achievement.
