The Mental Health Awareness course aims to emphasise the importance of mental health. Moreover, it focuses on its significance to physical health and its pervasive influence across all aspects of life.

Similarly, our thoughts, feelings and behaviours are dictated by how well we feel mentally. We all have ups and downs. However, suffering from a mental illness for a length of time can change someone's life completely.

Therefore, we need good mental health to flourish, look after ourselves and have good relationships with other people. Furthermore, it is vital to meet the needs of people who have mental ill-health as well as protecting and promoting mental health. Although, part of this is recognising how important mental health and wellbeing is.

Moreover, in this Mental Health Awareness course, we will look at understanding what mental health is. We will also identify some of the most common mental health problems and ways people can be treated and supported.

Furthermore, this course forms part of the online care certificate. Therefore, you can complete the care certificate with Grey Matter Learning as part of our course offering.

• What is mental health?
• Contributory factors and causes
• The impact of mental illness on people's lives
• Stigma and challenging myths surrounding mental health
• Primary causes, signs, symptoms and effects of mental health conditions
• What dual diagnosis means in relation to ASD and learning disability?
• Available treatments and therapies
• Ways that people can keep well
• Capacity, consent, confidentiality and legislation
• Monitoring, recording and reporting

By the end of the training course, you will:

• Understand the definition of mental health
• Present facts and figures relating to mental health
• Understand the stigma surrounding mental health
• Identify different mental health conditions and illnesses
• Understand the causes, signs, symptoms and effects of different mental health conditions
• Understand what dual diagnosis is
• Know the range of treatments used to support people with mental health illness
• Identify the relevant legislation
• Understand the role of the social care worker when supporting a person with mental health challenges

This Mental Health Awareness training course has been designed specifically for people who want to know more about Mental Health. Although it provides focus for people working in social care, it will also be useful to a wider audience of people who would like to know more about mental health.

We offer our courses for your LMS as SCORM files. However, depending on the scope of what you need there may be a charge for this. Please connect to discuss it with us.