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Mental Health First Aid Training Benefits
Your organisation will have a mixture of employees from varied age groups. They will have a variety of backgrounds, education and life experience, and based on the numbers above, those employees will already have had or develop a mental health issue. Training your team with the tools mental health first aid training will provide, work colleagues will be able to recognise when a person is having or developing a mental health crisis.
On a broader front, your work group, interacts with a large number of people in a variety of places on a daily basis.
On a broader front, your work group, interacts with a large number of people in a variety of places on a daily basis. Therefore, there is a high chance they will come into contact with people having a mental health crisis, and once trained, will have the tools to defuse, support or intervene until appropriate support can arrive, if required.
Course Information
The SMHFA course teaches adults how to provide initial support to adults who are developing any of the following mental health problems.
Experiencing a worsening of an existing mental health problem or mental health crises:
- Developing mental health problems
- Depression
- Anxiety problems
- Psychosis
- Substance use problems
- Mental health crises
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
- Non-suicidal self-injury
- Panic attacks
- Traumatic events
- Severe psychotic states
- Severe effects from alcohol or other drug use
- Aggressive behaviours