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Course Details
Trainer: Val Goff
Duration: 2 days
Date: 21st & 22nd March 2012
Time: (9am-5pm)
Venue: York Science Park, York University
Fee: £195 plus VAT or £185 plus VAT early booking (prior to 9th January 2012)
Course Content
Course Outline
Day 1
Session 1
- England’s Child Health Care Policy
- Definition of Mental Health
- Adolescent development
- Common youth mental disorders
- Preventing mental health problems
- Promoting well-being and protective factors
- The Youth MHFA Action Plan
Session 2
Depression & Anxiety
- What are depression and anxiety disorders?
- Signs and symptoms
- Possible causes
- Action planning using MHFA
Day 2
Session 3
Suicide
- The facts about suicide
- Possible warning signs
- Crisis first aid for suicidal behaviour
Psychosis
- What is psychosis?
- Signs of psychosis
- Action planning for using MHFAS
- Crisis first aid for acute psychosis
- Treatment and resources for psychosis
Session 4
Self-harm, substance misuse and eating disorders
- What is it?
- Why is it important?
- Possible causes
- Signs and symptoms
- Treatment and resources
- Action planning using MHFA
Youth Mental Health First Aid Training
This two day course is essential for people who work, live or care for young people aged 11 – 18.
Youth MHFA is an internationally recognised programme that originated in Australia and is specifically designed to be delivered to those working with, living with or caring for young people.
This training provides information, tools (including the use of substance misuse screening tools.) and techniques to promote a young person’s mental and emotional well-being and to enable participants to support a young person who might be experiencing mental and emotional distress. This course also has a deliberate fit with national policy and aims to promote the common assessment framework (CAF), Healthy Schools and Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS). There is also a particular focus on vulnerable groups of young people including looked after children (LAC)
Why is it important?
- 1 in 10 young people experience emotional and mental health problems
- By the time young people become adults the incidence of mental health problems rises to somewhere between 1 in 4 and 1 in 6 people
- For those aged 15-24 suicide is the second most common cause of death
- There is evidence to suggest early intervention is hugely beneficial
Key areas covered within the programme include:
- Promoting emotional, mental, social and psychological well-being
- Diversity and equality issues
- Child, adolescent and family psychosocial development
- Depression/Anxiety/Psychosis
- Substance/Alcohol misuse
- Self Harm
- Eating Disorders
- Bullying/Cyber bullying
- Suicide
The Youth MHFA course will teach you how to:
- Spot the early signs of a mental health problem in young people
- Feel confident helping a young person experiencing a problem
- Provide help on a first aid basis
- Help protect a young person who might be at risk of harm
- Help prevent a mental health illness from getting worse
- Help a young person recover faster
- Guide a young person towards the right support
- Reduce the stigma of mental health problems
Each participant will receive a fully comprehensive Youth MHFA Manual and a Certificate on completion of the course.
Shadow Health Secretary acknowledges MHFA:
In a recent speech on rethinking mental health in the 21st Century, Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, acknowledges Mental Health First Aid.
“I’m also interested in the Mental Health First Aid movement, which – just like traditional first aid – gives people the confidence to deal with mental health issues that they come across, in friends, family members or co-workers.”
The full speech can be found here.