Mental Health Awareness
Short course
In Basingstoke
Description
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Type
Short course
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Location
Basingstoke
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Duration
1 Day
Suitable for: Organisations such as, Voluntary services, Housing and Benefit staff, Support staff within the health/social care services, Schools and businesses, Citizen Advice and Advocacy staff. Suitable for service users & Carers.
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Course Summary
- Mental Health statistics
- Brief overview of diagnoses within Mental Health. Do you know your neuroses from your psychoses?
- Explanations of the major types of Mental Distress
- Violence and Mental Illness
- Mental Illness and the law
- The Recovery Model
- Promoting equality - challenging discrimination
- Children and Mental Health
- Social inclusion
- Media Representation of Mental Illness
Aims
To raise the awareness of mental illness and the stigma surrounding it as well as the impact of a Mental Health diagnoses on individuals within society. The course also looks at promoting and maintaining positive mental health.
Additional information
Mental Health Awareness