Become a mental health first aider

Just like physical first aid, timely competent help from a mental health first aider can really prevent more serious problems developing. This is a much needed skill as the mounting stress in so many people's lives is harming our individual and collective mental health as well as our physical well-being and economic prosperity. So, this first aid course is designed for you to be able to first explain to a friend or colleague exactly what is going on in their mind and secondly, and even more important, the training will help you alleviate their immediate sense of chaos, confusion, isolation and fear.

Timely intervention with mental health first aid can literally help turn someone's life around. In addition to human suffering, stress and poor mental health also adds significant costs to any organization. Consequently, we see these extra costs in terms of lower productivity, employee disengagement, more accidents, mistakes, absenteeism, a decline in creative problem solving, loss of talented staff and more.

In this respect applying the practical mental health first aid tips you will acquire from this course will reap dividends in terms of cost savings and enhanced people performance. Twelve learning pointsAs a mental health first aider, you will be able to lead and normalize conversations around mental health. The simple skills on this course can literally put a smile back on someone's face and so prevent a difficult situation getting worse.

The most important major learning points are:Advice, tools and techniques to provide timely help with stress, burnout, emotional distress and mild to moderate mental health problems. An understanding of the risk factors that create mental health problems and how to spot the symptoms. The biological mechanics of stress and how long-term stress leads to both mental and physical ill-health.