Improve your understanding of mental health and reduce misconceptions around mental ill health. This course explores risk factors, the effects on individuals and the importance of recovery and self-care. It offers a foundation for greater awareness in the workplace and everyday life.
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Awareness of Mental Health and Wellbeing
Improve your understanding of mental health and reduce misconceptions around mental ill health.
Course highlights
- Wellbeing and mental ill health
- Good and poor mental health
- Risk factors and life events
- Stigma and its effects
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Course overview, learning outcomes and assessment
Course overview
What you will learn
01
Wellbeing and mental ill health
Understand the distinction between mental wellbeing and mental ill health and why both matter in everyday life.
02
Good and poor mental health
Recognise differences between good and poor mental health and explore how a person's experience can vary.
03
Risk factors and life events
Consider personal risk factors and significant life events that can affect mental health and wellbeing.
04
Stigma and its effects
Understand how stigma can affect people experiencing mental ill health and influence how their experiences are understood.
05
Forms of mental illness
Develop awareness of different forms of mental illness within the introductory scope of the course.
06
Diagnosis and recovery
Understand the role of diagnosis and explore what recovery can mean for people experiencing mental ill health.
07
Recovery approaches
Explore recovery journeys, plans and models, recognising that people's experiences and support needs can differ.
08
Wellness recovery action plans
Consider the purpose of a wellness recovery action plan and its place within an approach to maintaining wellbeing.
09
Self-care and self-management
Explore approaches to self-care and self-management that can support attention to personal wellbeing.
10
Mindfulness
Understand the role of mindfulness within the wellbeing approaches introduced in the course.
Who is this course for?
Anyone seeking an introduction to mental health, mental ill health and wellbeing, for work or personal awareness.
Course outcome
After successfully completing the required learning and assessment, the learner will receive the course outcome shown below.
- Certificate
- Downloadable Highfield completion certificate after successfully completing the course.
- Assessment
- Online assessment using multiple-choice questions.
- Course recognition
- Highfield e-learning with a completion certificate.
Important information
Awareness training only. This course does not qualify you as a mental health first aider or a clinical practitioner.
Training several people?
Arrange this course for your team.
Tell us how many learners you need to train and when you would like access to begin. We will provide a clear quotation and learner-detail spreadsheet.
- One quotation and invoice
- Each learner receives individual access
- Immediate or scheduled start date