This course is available as either an online or face-to-face training session.
This introductory three-hour session raises awareness of young people’s mental health. It covers:
- Some of the common mental health issues affecting young people, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and psychosis
- Skills to work more effectively with young people living with mental health issues
- Ways to support young people with a mental health issue and relate to their experiences
Format: One day face-to-face or Online course
This is a three-hour course delivered either face-to-face or via online video conferencing
Learning takes place through a mix of presentations, group discussions and workshop activities
We limit numbers to 25 people per course so that the instructor can keep people safe and supported while they learn
Three Hour Session
- Higher or lower activity
- What is mental health?
- Protective and risk factors
- Stigma and discrimination
- Mental Health Continuum
- Protective and risk factors case studies
- Self-harm and suicide
- Signs and symptoms of mental ill health in young people
- Stress Container
- Hand Model of the Brain
- Take Time Together
- Signposting to professional and self-help
- Safeguarding
- Recovery
- Self-awareness and self-care
- Action for Happiness: GREAT DREAM
- Personal pledge
- Wider perspective