Become a mental health first aider

Provide timely peer support and rapid relief, plus lead conversations about mental wellness with friends and colleagues

Created by: Jeremy Old
Psychotherapist, coach and business improvement specialist

What Will I Learn?

• Provide rapid relief to someone in distress and so prevent a more serious condition arising
• How the stress response can translate into mental health issues and how knowing this is therapeutic
• Identify the causes of stress in the work place and learn the key factors that develop a positive work culture
• Help someone come out of a panic attack quickly and prevent them experiencing one in the future
• Use the understanding of the twelve emotional needs to help lift anxiety and depression
• language skills to help someone overcome blocks to utilising their own innate resources
• Deflect destructive language and instead use new language skills to stimulate positive change
• Normalise conversations about mental health so as to encourage positive change in the workplace
• Simple relaxation techniques to prevent stressed thinking and behaviour
• Dispel nine harmful myths about mental health and psychotherapy that create confusion, doubt and resistance to change

Requirements

• No prior knowledge or training is necessary, just a natural empathy for those around you and a sincere willingness to help others under stress or in distress.
• For those with existing knowledge this course is also helpful as refresher. Usefully, there are many new aspects of mental health first aid that you may not have found elsewhere.

Target audience

• As a mental health first aider you can provide peer to peer first response to a colleague or friend who may be showing signs of distress.
• The COVID pandemic has increased the importance of mental health first aid for line managers, HR managers, supervisors, and team leaders.
• This course is a useful refresher if you have already taken first aid training in mental health, as there is much NEW knowledge that you may not have found elsewhere.