Mental Health First Aid (Adult)
This online course qualifies you as a Mental Health First Aider, giving you:
- An in-depth understanding of mental health and the factors that can affect wellbeing
- Practical skills to spot the triggers and signs of mental health issues
- Confidence to step in, reassure and support a person in distress
- Enhanced interpersonal skills such as non-judgemental listening
- Knowledge to help someone recover their health by guiding them to further support - whether that’s self-help resources, through their employer, the NHS, or a mix
Format (as taken from Mental Health First Aid England)
- This is an online course delivered through the MHFA England Online Learning Hub
- Learning takes place through four live training sessions, spread across two weeks, with self-learning activities in between. See course structure section below for more detail
- Each session is built around a Mental Health First Aid action plan
- We limit numbers to 16 people per course so that the instructor can keep people safe and supported while they learn
Delegates will receive:
- A certificate of attendance to say you are a Mental Health First Aider
- A manual to refer to whenever you need it
- A quick reference card for the Mental Health First Aid action plan
- A workbook including a helpful toolkit to support your own mental health
How do I book?
Contact our training team by emailing training@rethink.org or by calling 0207 840 3069.
Course outline
Session 1
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Individual Learning (1 hour) |
Live Session (2 hours 30 mins) |
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Introduction to the Online Mental Health First Aid course and the Online Learning Hub (course overview, safety procedure, attending live sessions, and completing individual learning activities) |
Introduction to course functions |
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Activity 1: Why Mental Health First Aid? |
Introduction to the course |
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Activity 2: The Mental Health First Aid action plan |
ALGEE and mental health introduction recap |
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Activity 3: What is mental health? |
Stigma |
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Activity 4: Quiz: Impact of mental health |
Risk and protective factors |
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Activity 5: Stress Container (completed after live session) |
Frame of Reference |
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Activity 6: Frame of Reference (completed after live session) |
The Mental Health Continuum |
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Introduction to the Stress Container |
Session 2
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Individual Learning (2 hours) |
Live Session (2 hours 30 mins) |
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Activity 7: What is depression? |
Recap of individual learning on depression |
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Activity 8: Risk factors for depression |
Prevalence of suicide |
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Activity 9: Mental Health First Aid for depression |
Suicide, substance misuse and dual diagnosis |
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Activity 10: Introduction to suicide |
Analyse the impact of suicidal feelings |
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Recap of ALGEE and risk factors for suicide |
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Explain Mental Health First Aid action plan 1 for suicide |
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Explain non-judgemental listening, Empathy video |
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Practice using ALGEE in case study scenarios |
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Review of ALGEE for suicide and depression |
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Self-care |
Session 3
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Individual Learning (2 hours) |
Live Session (2 hours 30 mins) |
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Activity 11: What is anxiety? |
Recap of individual learning on anxiety |
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Activity 12: Mental Health First Aid for anxiety |
Recap of the five basic steps of ALGEE for anxiety |
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Activity 13: What are eating disorders? |
Explain action 1 for anxiety |
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Activity 14: Mental Health First Aid for eating disorders |
How to support someone who is having a panic attack |
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Activity 15: What is self-harm? |
Explain crisis first aid |
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Activity 16: Mental Health First Aid for self-harm |
Practice action 2: non-judgemental listening |
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Activity 17: What are personality disorders? |
Practice applying the Mental Health First Aid action plan for anxiety |
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Explain cognitive behavioural therapy |
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Recap of eating disorders and self-harm |
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Case study for eating disorders and self-harm |
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Review ALGEE for eating disorders and self-harm |
Session 4
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Individual Learning (2 hours) |
Live Session (2 hours 30 mins) |
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Activity 18: What are psychosis, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? |
Review of individual learning on psychosis |
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Activity 19: Risk factors for psychosis |
Explain the development of symptoms of psychosis |
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Activity 20: Mental Health First Aid for psychosis |
Review the five steps of ALGEE for psychosis |
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Activity 21: Helpful and unhelpful responses |
Group discussion about MHFA Australia psychosis video |
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Workbook Activity 10: My action plan for using Mental Health First Aid (completed after live session) |
Case study activity using Mental Health First Aid action plan for psychosis |
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Recovery |
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Explore how to build a mentally healthy workplace |
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Start action plan to use Mental Health First Aid |
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Feedback |